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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.
Fourthly. These Cautions being premised, I say, that we §. 4 are distinctly to worship the Holy Ghost. As it is in the case of Faith, in respect of the Father and the Son, Joh. 14 1. Believe in God, believe also in me. This extends it self no less to the Holy Ghost. Christ called the Disciples for the acting of Faith on him, he being upon the accomplishment of the great work of his Mediation: and the Holy Ghost now carrying on the work of his delegation requireth the same. And to the same purpose are their distinct operations mentioned. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Now as the formal Reason of the worship of the Son, is not his mediation, but his being God, his mediation being a powerful motive thereto; so the formal Reason ⟨p. 315⟩of our worshipping the Holy Ghost, is not his being our comforter, but his being God, yet his being our comforter is a powerful motive thereunto.
Fourthly. These Cautions being premised, I say, that we §. 4 are distinctly to worship the Holy Ghost. As it is in the case of Faith, in respect of the Father and the Sonne, Joh. 14 1. Believe in God, believe also in me. This extends it selfe no lesse to the Holy Ghost. Christ called the Disciples for the acting of Faith on him, he being upon the accomplishment of the great worke of his Mediation: and the Holy Ghost now carrying on the work of his delegation requireth the same. And to the same purpose are their distinct operations mentioned. My Father worketh hitherto, and I worke. Now as the formall Reason of the worship of the Sonne, is not his mediation, but his being God, his mediation being a powerfull motive thereto; so the formall Reason ⟨p. 315⟩of our worshipping the Holy Ghost, is not his being our comforter, but his being God, yet his being our comforter is a powerfull motive thereunto.