A53688:985
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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1. First Peter tells us,1 that it is a participation of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. We are by the Promises made partakers of the Divine Nature; that is, it is promised to be given unto us, which when we receive, we are made partakers of, by the Promises. That this participation of the Divine Nature (let it be interpreted how it will) is the same, upon the matter, with our Union with Christ, is not questioned: that [Greek or Hebrew] should be only a gracious habit, quality, or disposition of Soul in us, I cannot easily receive; that is somewhere called [Greek or Hebrew],2 the New Crea ure, but no where [Greek or Hebrew] the Divine Nature. The pretended high and spiritual, but indeed gross and carnal conceits of some, from hence, destructive to the Nature of God and Man, I shall not turn aside to consider; What that is of the Divine Nature, or wherein it doth consist, that we are made partakers of by the Promises, I showed before: That the Person of the Holy and Blessed Spirit is promised to us, whence he is called the Holy Spirit of Promise: Eph. 1. 13. hath been I say by sundry evidences manifested: Upon the Accomplishment of that Promise, he coming to dwell in us, we are said in him, by the Promises, to be made partakers of the Divine Nature. We are [Greek or Hebrew], we have our Communion with it: Our participation then of the Divine Nature, being our Union with Christ, consists in dwelling of the same Spirit in him and in us, we receiving him by the Promise for that end.
1. First Peter tells us,1 that it is a participation of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. We are by the Promises made partakers of the Divine Nature; that is, it is promised to be given unto us, which when we receive, we are made partakers of, by the Promises. That this participation of the Divine Nature (let it be interpreted how it will) is the same, upon the matter, with our Union with Christ, is not questioned: that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 should be only a gracious habit, quality, or disposition of Soule in us, I cannot easily receive; that is somewhere called ,