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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.
namely in the sending of Christ, and the declaration of him in the Gospel, then was this pardoning mercy, and Salvation not by works discovered.
namely in the sending of Christ, and the declaration of him in the Gospell, then was this pardoning mercy, and Salvation not by workes discovered.
And these are of those Properties of God, whereby he will §. 9 be known, whereof there is not the least glimpse to be obtained, but by and in Christ; and whoever knows him not by these, knows him not at all. They know an Idol, and not the only true God. He that hath not the Son, the same hath not the Father. 1 Joh. 2. 23. And not to have God, as a Father, is not to have 1him at all; and he is known as a Father only, as he is Love, and full of pardoning Mercy in Christ. How this is to be had the Holy Ghost tells us 1 Joh. 5 20. The Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true: by him alone we have our understanding, to know him that is true. Now these Properties of God, Christ revealeth in his doctrine, in the Revelation he makes of God and his will, as the great Prophet of the Church, Joh. 17. 6. And on this account the knowledge of them is exposed to all, with an evidence unspeakably surmounting that which is given by the Creation, to his eternal power and Godhead. But the life of this knowledge lies in an acquaintance with his person, wherein the express image and beams of this glory of his Father do shine forth Heb. 1. 3. of which before.
And these are of those Properties of God, whereby he will §. 9 be known, whereof there is not the least glimpse to be obtained, but by and in Christ; and whoever knowes him not by these, knowes him not at all. They know an Idol, and not the only true God. He that hath not the Son, the same hath not the Father.