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Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
Part 3 › Chapter 8: Particular Directions for Communion with the Holy Ghost.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The proper, and peculiar object of divine worship, and invocation, is the Essence of God in its infinite Excellency, dignity, Majesty, and its causality as the first sovereign cause of all things: Now this is common to all the three Persons, and is proper to each of them; not formally, as a Person, but as God blessed for ever. All adoration respects that which is common to all: so that in each Act of Adoration and worship, all are adored, and worshipped. The Creatures worship their Creator; and a man him in whose image he was created, viz. him from whom descendeth every good and perfect gift; all this describing God, as God. Hence,
The proper, and peculiar object of divine worship, and invocation, is the Essence of God in its infinite Excellency, dignity, Majesty, and its causality as the first soveraigne cause of all things: Now this is common to all the three Persons, and is proper to each of them; not formally, as a Person, but as God blessed for ever. All adoration respects that which is common to all: so that in each Act of Adoration and worship, all are adored, and worshipped. The Creatures worship their Creator; and a man him in whose image he was created, viz. him from whom descendeth every good and perfect gift; all this describing God, as God. Hence,
Secondly, when we begin our Prayers to God the Father, and §. 2 end them in the name of Jesus Christ: yet the Son is no less invocated, and worshipped in the beginning then the Father, though he be peculiarly mentioned as mediator in the close; not as Son to himself, but as Mediator to the whole Trinity, or God in Trinity. But in the invocation of God the Father, we invocate every Person, because we Invocate the Father as God, every Person being so.
Secondly, when we begin our Prayers to God the Father, and §. 2 end them in the name of Jesus Christ: yet the Sonne is no lesse invocated, and worshipped in the beginning then the Father, though he be peculiarly mentioned as mediator in the close; not as Sonne to himselfe, but as Mediator to the whole Trinity, or God in Trinity. But in the invocation of God the Father, we invocate every Person, because we Invocate the Father as God, every Person being so.