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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.
3. There remaineth only then, that these Attributes of God, §. 21 so manifested, and exercised, are powerful and able to bring us to the Everlasting fruition of him. To evince this, the Lord wraps up the whole Covenant of grace in one Promise signifying no less I ⟨p. 104⟩will be your God. In the Covenant God becomes our God, and we are his People: and thereby all his Attributes are ours also; and least that we should doubt, when once our eyes are opened, to see in any measure the inconceivable difficulty that is in this thing, what inimaginable obstacles on all hands there lye against us, that all is not enough to deliver and save us, God hath I say wrapped it up in this expression: Gen. 17. 1. I am, saith he, God Almighty, Allsufficient! I am wholly able to perform all my undertakings, and to be thy exceeding great reward. I can remove 1all difficulties, answer all objections, pardon all sins, conquer all opposition, I am God Allsufficient. Now you know in whom this Covenant and all the promises thereof are ratified, and in whose blood it is confirmed: to wit in the Lord Christ alone; in him only, is God an Allsufficient God to any, and an exceeding great reward. And hence Christ himself is said to save to the utmost them that come to God by him; Heb. 7. And these three things I say are required to be known, that we may have a saving acquaintance, and such as is attended with consolation, with any of the Properties of God; and all these being hid only in Christ, from him alone it is to be obtained.
3. There remaineth only then, that these Attributes of God, §. 21 so manifested, and exercised, are powerfull and able to bring us to the Everlasting fruition of him. To evince this, the Lord wraps up the whole Covenant of grace in one Promise signifying no lesse I ⟨p. 104⟩will be your God. In the Covenant God becomes our God, and we are his People: and thereby all his Attributes are ours also; and least that we should doubt, when once our eys are opened, to see in any measure the inconceivable difficulty that is in this thing, what inimaginable obstacles on all hands there lye against us, that all is not enough to deliver and save us, God hath I say wrapt it up in this expression: