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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.
2ly The fullness of grace in Christs humane nature, sets forth the Amiableness and desirableness thereof: should I make it §. 19 my business to consider his perfections, as to this part of his Excellency, what he had from the womb, Luke 1. 35 what received growth and improvement, as to exercise in the days of his flesh, Luk. 2. 52. with the complement of them all, in glory, the whole would tend to the purpose in hand. I am but taking a view of these things in transitu. These two things lie in open sight to all at the first consideration: All Grace was in him, for the kinds thereof: and all degrees of grace for its perfections; and both of them make up that fullness that was in him; it is Created grace that I intend, and therefore I speak of the kinds of it; it is grace inherent in a created nature, not infinite, and therefore I speak of the degrees of it.
2ly The fulnesse of grace in Christs humane nature, sets forth the Amiablenesse and desireablenesse thereof: should I make it §. 19 my businesse to consider his perfections, as to this part of his Excellency, what he had from the wombe, Luke 1. 35 what received growth and improvement, as to exercise in the dayes of his fesh, Luk. 2. 52. with the complement of them all, in glory, the whole would tend to the purpose in hand. I am but taking a view of these things in transitu. These two things ly in open sight to all at the first consideration: All Grace was in him, for the kinds thereof: and all degrees of grace for its perfections; and both of them make up that fullnesse that was in him; it is Created grace that I intend, and therefore I speak of the kinds of it; it is grace inherent in a created nature, not infinite, and therefore I speak of the degrees of it.
For the Fountain of Grace the holy Ghost, he received not him by measure