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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.
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⟩in his Grace, whereby he is obtained for us, so with himself, on the account of his voluntary condescension to this dispensation. Every request for the Holy Ghost, implies our closing with all these; Oh the Riches of the Grace of God.
Again, Consider him as he condescends to this delegation of the Father, and the Sonne, 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 doe 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⟩in his Grace, whereby he is obtained for us, so with himselfe, on the account of his voluntary condescension to this dispensation. Every request for the Holy Ghost, implyes our closing with all these; Oh the Riches of the Grace of God.