THE DOCTRINE OF THE SAINTS PERSEVERANCE, Explained and Confirmed. OR, The certain Permanency of their1. Acceptation with GOD, &2. Sanctification from GOD.MANIFESTED & PROVED FROM The1. ETERNAL PRINCIPLES2. EFFECTUAL CAUSES3. EXTERNAL MEANSThereof. IN,1. The IMMUTABILITY of the1. Nature2. Decrees3. Covenant and4. Promises Of GOD.2. The OBLATION and INTERCESSION Of JESUS CHRIST.3. The1. Promises2. Exhortations3. ThreatsOf the GOSPEL.Improved in its Genuine Tendency to Obedience and Consolation.AND 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. 2. Personal Indwelling of the Spirit. 3. Union with Christ. 4. Nature of Gospel promises, &c.ALSO A PREFACE Manifesting the Judgement of the Ancients concerning the Truth contended for: 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 Servant of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospel.OXFORD, Printed by LEON. LICHFIELD Printer to the University, for Tho. […] ANNO DOM: 1654.THE DOCTRINE OF THE SAINTS PERSEVERANCE, Explained and Confirmed. OR, The certain Permanency of their1. Acceptation with GOD, &2. Sanctification from GOD.MANIFESTED & PROVED FROM The1. ETERNALL PRINCIPLES2. EFFECTUALL CAUSES3. EXTERNALL MEANESThereof. IN,1. The IMMUTABILITY of the1. Nature2. Decrees3. Covenant and4. Promises Of GOD.2. The OBLATION and INTERCESSION Of JESUS CHRIST.3. The1. Promises2. Exhortations3. ThreatsOf the GOSPELL.Improved in its Genuine Tendency to Obedience and Consolation.AND VINDICATED In a Full Answer to the Discourse of Mr JOHN GOODWIN against it, in his Book Entituled Redemption Redeemed.With some DIGRESSIONS Concerning 1. The Immediate effects of the Death of Christ. 2. Personall Indwelling of the Spirit. 3. Union with Christ. 4. Nature of Gospell promises, &c.ALSO A PREFACE Manifesting the Judgement of the Antients concerning the Truth contended for: with a Discourse touching the Epistles ofTitle page of The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance, London, 1654The Doctrine of the Saints' PerseveranceJohn Owen, 1654

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1. M▪ G's fifth Argument for the Apostasy of true Believers. 2. The weight of this Argument taken from the sins of Believers. The difference between the sins of Believers and unregenerate persons proposed to consideration. 3. lames 1. 14. 15. The rise and progress of Lust and Sin. 4. The fountain of all sin, in all persons is Lust. Rom. 7. 7. 5. Observations clearing the difference between Begenerate and unregenerate persons in their sinning, as to the common fountain of all sin: The first. 6. The second of the universality of Lust in the soul by nature. 7. The Third, in two inferences: the first, unregenerate men sin with their whole consent. 8. The Second inference concerning the reign of sin, and reigning sin. 9. The Fourth, concerning the universal possession of the Soul by renewing Grace. 10. The fifth, that true Grace bears rule where ever it be. 11. Inferences from the former considerations. The first, that in every regenerate person there are diverse principles of all Moral operations. Rom 7. 19. 20. opened. 12. The second, that sin cannot reign in a Regenerate person. 13. The third, that Regenerate persons sin not with their whole consent. 14. Answer to the Argument at the entrance proposed. Believers never sin with their whole consent and wills. 15. M. G's attempt to remove the Answer. 16. His exceptions considered and removed. Plurality of Wills in the same person in the Scripture sense: of the opposition between flesh and spirit: that no Regenerate person sins with his full consent proved. 17. Of the Spirit and his Lustings in us. 18. The Actings of the spirit in us free, not suspended on any conditions in us. 19. The same farther manifested. 20. M. G's discourse of the first and second motions of the spirit considered. 21. The same considerations farther carried on. 22. Peter Martyrs Testimony considered▪ 23. Rom. 7. 19. 20. considered. 24. Difference between the opposition made to sin in persons Begenerate, and that in persons unregenerate farther argued. 25. Of the sense of

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