A53688:983
The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance
The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectual causes 3. external means thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entitled Redemption redeemed : with some digressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectuall causes 3. externall meanes thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entituled Redemption redeemed : with some degressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...
London: printed by Leon. Lichfield, 1654
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I intend not now to handle it at large, but only (and that I hope without offence) to give in my thoughts concerning it, as far as it receiveth light from, and relateth unto, what hath been before delivered, concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit, and that without the least contending about other ways of Expression.
I intend not now to handle it at large, but only (and that I hope without offence) to give in my thoughts concerning it, as farre as it receiveth light from, and relateth unto, what hath been before delivered, concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit, and that without the least contending about other wayes of Expression.
I say then,1 this is that which gives us Union with Christ, and that wherein it consists; even that the one, and self-same Spirit, dwells in him and us; The first saving Elapse from God, upon the Hearts of the Elect, is the Holy Spirit. Their quickening is every where ascribed to the Spirit, that is given unto them; There is not a quickening, a life-giving Power, in a quality, a created thing. In the state of Nature, besides gracious dispensations and habits in the Soul inclining it to that which is good, and making it a suitable subject for spiritual Operations,2 we want also a vital Principle, which should actuate the disposed subject unto answerable Operations; this a quality cannot give. He that carries on the work of quickening, doth also begin it. Rom: 8. 11. All Graces whatever,3 (as was said) are the fruits of the Spirit; and therefore, in order of Nature, are wrought in men, consequentially to his being bestowed on them: Now in the first bestowing of the Spirit, we have Union with Christ, the carrying on whereof, consists in the farther manifestation, and operations of the Indwelling Spirit, which is called Communion: To make this evident, that our Union with Christ consists in this, the same Spirit dwelling in him and us, and that this is our Union; let us take a view of it First, from Scriptural Declarations of it; and then Secondly, from Scripture Illustrations of it, both briefly, being not my direct business in hand.