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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.
How and in what sense it is to be performed, hath been already declared: what is the formal reason of this worship, and §. 12 ultimate object of it, I have also manifested. In the duty it self is put forth no small part of the life, Efficacy, and vigour of Faith: and we come short of that enlargedness of spirit in dealing with God, and are straitened from walking in the breadth of his ways, which we are called unto, if we learn not our selves to meet him with his worship in every way, he is pleased to communicate himself unto us. In these things he does so, in the person of the Holy Ghost; In that person do we meet him, his Love, Grace, and Authority, by our prayers and supplications.
How and in what sense it is to be performed, hath been already declared: what is the formall reason of this worship, and §. 12 ultimate object of it, I have also manifested. In the duty it selfe is put forth no small part of the life, Efficacy, and vigor of Faith: and we come short of that enlargednesse of spirit in dealing with God, and are straightned from walking in the breadth of his waies, which we are called unto, if we learne not our selves to meet him with his worship in every way, he is pleased to communicate himselfe unto us. In these things he does so, in the person of the Holy Ghost; In that person do we meet him, his Love, Grace, and Authority, by our prayers and supplications.
Again, Consider him as he condescends to this delegation of the Father, and the Son, to be our Comforter, and ask him daily §. 13 of the Father in the name of Jesus Christ. This is the daily work of Believers. They look upon, and by Faith consider the Holy Ghost, as promised to be sent: In this promise they know lies all their Grace, peace, mercy, joy, and hope. For by him so promised, and him alone, are these things communicated to them. If therefore our life to God, or the joy of that life be considerable, in this we are to abound: to ask him of the Father, as Children do of their Parents, daily bread. And as in this asking and receiving of the Holy Ghost, we have communion with the Father, in his Love, whence he is sent, and with the Son ⟨p. 318⟩