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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
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.
So likewise in that Apostolical Benediction, wherein the Communication §. 3 of spiritual Blessings from the several Persons unto the Saints, is so exactly distinguished; it is GRACE that is ascribed to our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 13. 14. The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.
So likewise in that Apostollicall Benediction, wherein the Communication §. 3 of spirituall Blessings from the severall Persons unto the Saints, is so exactly distinguished; it is GRACE that is ascribed to our Lord Iesus Christ, 2 Cor. 13. 14. The GRACE of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.
Yea, Paul is so delighted with this, that he makes it his Motto, and the token whereby he would have his Epistles known, §. 4 2 Thess. 3. 17, 18. The Salutation of Paul with mine own hand, So I write, The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Yea he makes these two, GRACE be with you, and the Lord Jesus be with you, to be equivalent Expressions; for whereas he affirmeth the one to be the Token in all his Epistles, yet sometimes, he useth the one, only, sometimes the other of these, and sometimes puts them both together. This then is that which we are peculiarly ⟨p. 50⟩to eye in the Lord Jesus, to receive it from him, even GRACE, Gospel Grace, revealed in, or exhibited by the Gospel. He is the Head Stone in the building of the Temple of God, to whom GRACE, GRACE, is to be cried: Zach. 4. 7.
Yea, Paul is so delighted with this, that he makes it his Motto, and the token whereby he would have his Epistles known, §. 4