A53688:993
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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2. The Spirit as indwelling, gives us Life and Quickening: God Quickens our mortal bodies, (or us in them) by his Spirit, that dwells in us, (Rom. 8. 11.) by which Spirit Christ also was raised from the dead: and therefore the Apostle mentioning, in another place, the beginning and carrying on of Faith in us, he saith, it is wrought according to the exceeding greatness of the power of God, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, Ephes. 1. 8. Now in this Quickening there are two things.
2. The Spirit as indwelling, gives us Life and Quickning: God Quickens our mortall bodyes, (or us in them) by his Spirit, that dwells in us, (Rom. 8. 11.) by which Spirit Christ also was raised from the dead: and therefore the Apostle mentioning, in another place, the beginning and carrying on of Faith in us, he saith, it is wrought according to the exceeding greatnesse of the power of God, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, Ephes. 1. 8. Now in this Quickning there are two things.
1. The Actus primus, or the Life it self bestowed.
1. The Actus primus, or the Life it selfe bestowed.
2. The Operations of that Life in them, on whom it is bestowed.