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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.
This being so earnestly and directly asserted by the Apostle, §. 3 we may boldly follow him with our Affirmation, viz. That the Saints of God have communion with him: And an holy and spiritual communion it is, as shall be declared. How this is spoken distinctly, in Reference to the Father, and the Son; must afterwards be fully opened, and carried on.
This being so earnestly and directly asserted by the Apostle, §. 3 we may boldly follow him with our Affirmation, viz. That the Saints of God have communion with him: And an holy and spirituall communion it is, as shall be declared. How this is spoken distinctly, in Reference to the Father, and the Son; must afterwards be fully opened, and carryed on.
By Nature, since the Entrance of sin, no man hath any Communion §. 4 with God. He is Light, We Darkness, and what communion hath Light with Darkness? He is life, we are dead. He 1is Love and we are enmity, and what Agreement can there be between us? Men in such a condition, have neither Christ, nor Hope, nor God in the World Ephes. 2. 12. being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them. Chap. 4. 18. Now, two cannot walk together unless they be agreed. Amos. 3. 3. Whilst there is this distance between God and Man, there is no walking together 2for them in any fellowship, or Communion. Our first Interest in God, was so lost by sin, as that there was left unto us (in our selves) no possibility of a Recovery. As we had deprived our selves of all Power for a Returnall, so God had not revealed any way of Access unto himself, or that he could under any consideration be approached unto by sinners, in Peace. Not any work that God had made, not any Attribute that he had revealed, could give the least light into such a dispensation.