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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.
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This is the sum of the first Direction. The Grace, actings, Love, effects of the Holy Ghost, as he is our Comforter, ought to §. 5 stir us up, and provoke us to Love, worship, believe in, and invocate him: though all this being directed to him as God, is no less directed on that account, to the other Persons, then to him; only by the fruits of his Love towards us, are we stirred up unto it.
This is the summe of the first Direction. The Grace, actings, Love, effects of the Holy Ghost, as he is our Comforter, ought to §. 5 stir us up, and provoke us to Love, worship, believe in, and invocate him: though all this being directed to him as God, is no lesse directed on that account, to the other Persons, then to him; only by the fruits of his Love towards us, are we stirred up unto it.
These things being presupposed; let the Saints learn to act §. 6 faith distinctly on the Holy Ghost, as the immediate efficient cause of all the good things mentioned. Faith I say to believe in him; and Faith in all things to believe him, and to yield obedience to him. Faith, not imagination. The distinction of the Persons in the Trinity, is not to be fancied but believed. So then, the Scripture so fully, frequently, clearly, distinctly ascribing the things we have been speaking of, to the immediate efficiency of the Holy Ghost, Faith closeth with him, in the truth revealed, and peculiarly regards him, worships, him serves him, waits for him, prayeth to him, praiseth him; All these things, I say, the Saints do in Faith; The person of the Holy Ghost, revealing its self in these operations and effects, is the peculiar object of our Worship. Therefore when he ought to be peculiarly honoured, and is not, he is peculiarly sinned against. Acts 5. 2 Ananias is said to lye to the Holy Ghost: not to God, which being taken essentially, would denote the whole Trinity; but peculiarly to the Holy Ghost. Him he was to have honoured peculiarly, in that especial gift of his, which he made profession of: not doing it, he sinned peculiarly against him: But this must be a little farther branched into particulars.