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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.
Now this is a Saving knowledge and full of Consolation; when we can see all the Properties of God made Glorious and exalted in a way of doing us good. And this wisdom is hid only in Jesus Christ: hence when he desired his Father to Glorify his name, Joh. 12. 24. to make in him his name, that is, his Nature, his Properties, his Will, all glorious in that work of Redemption he had in hand; he was instantly answered from Heaven, I have hoth glorified it, and will glorify it again. He will give it its utmost glory in him.
Now this is a Saving knowledge and full of Consolation; when we can see all the Propertys of God made Glorious and exalted in a way of doing us good. And this wisdome is hid only in Jesus Christ: hence when he desired his Father to Glorifie his name, Joh. 12. 24. to make in him his name, that is, his Nature, his Propertys, his Will, all glorious in that worke of Redemption he had in hand; he was instantly answered from Heaven, I have hoth glorified it, and will glorify it againe. He will giue it its utmost glory in him.
2. That God will yet exercise and lay out those Properties of his to the utmost in our behalf. Though he hath made them §. 20 all glorious in a way that may tend to our good, yet it doth not absolutely follow that he will use them for our good: for do we not see innumerable Persons perishing everlastingly, notwithstanding the manifestation of himself which God hath made in Christ. Wherefore further, God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ, if I may so say, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good. He is the power of God, and the wisdom of God, he is the Lord our Righteousness, and 1is made unto us of God, Wisdom and Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption. Christ having glorified his Father in all his Attributes, he hath now the exercise of them committed to him, that he might be the Captain of Salvation to them that do believe. So that if in the Righteousness, the Goodness, the Love, the Mercy, the All-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf. Hence God is said to be in him reconciling the world unto Himself