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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.
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.
Thirdly. In that heavenly Directory which we have, Eph. 2. §. 3 18. this whole business is declared: our access in our worship is said to be to the Father; and this through Christ, or his mediation by the Spirit, or his assistance. Here is a distinction of the Persons, as to their operations; but not at all as to their being the object of our Worship. For the Son, and the Holy Ghost are no less worshipped, in our access to God, then the Father himself. Only the Grace of the Father, which we obtain by the mediation of the Son, and the assistance of the spirit, is that which we draw nigh to God for. So that when by the distinct dispensation of the Trinity, and every Person, we are lead to worship; that is, to act Faith on, or invocate any Person, we do herein worship the whole Trinity, and every Person, by what name soever, of Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, we invocate him. So that this is to be observed in this whole matter; That when any work of the Holy Ghost (or any other Person) which is appropriated to him (we never exclude the concurrence of other Persons) draws us to the worship of him; yet he is not worshipped exclusively, but the whole Godhead is worshipped.