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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
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3. Consider that he is all this in one Person. We have not been treating of two, a God and a man; but of pone who is God and §. 22 man. That Word that was with God in the beginning, and was God Joh. 1. 1. is also made flesh v. 14. not by a conversion of its self into flesh, not by appearing in the outward shape, and likeness of flesh, but by assuming that holy thing that was borne of the Virgin Luk. 1. 55. into personal union with himself. Soe the Mighty God, If. 9. 6. is a Child given to us; that holy thing that was borne of the Virgin, is called the Son of God; Luk. 1. 35. That which made the man Christ Jesus to be a man, was the union of soul and body; that which made him, that man, and without which he was not that man, was the subsistence of both united in the person of the Son of God. As to the proof hereof, I have spoken of it gelsewhere at large; I now propose it only in general, to show the Amiableness of Christ on this account; Here lies, hence arises, the Grace, Peace, life, and Security of the Church, of all believers: as by some few considerations may be clearly evinced.
3. Consider that he is all this in one Person. We have not been treating of two, a God and a man; but of pone who is God and §. 22 man. That Word that was with God in the beginning, and was God Joh. 1. 1. is also made flesh v. 14. not by a conversion of its selfe into flesh, not by appearing in the outward shape, and likenesse of flesh, but by assuming that holy thing that was borne of the Virgin Luk. 1. 55. into personall union with himselfe. Soe the Mighty God, If. 9. 6. is a Child given to us; that holy thing that was borne of the Virgin, is called the Sonne of God;