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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.
for saith the Apostle, if they which are of the Law be heirs, faith is made void, and the Promise made of none effect, because the. Law worketh wrath, Rom. 4. 14, 15. The Law it self is now such as that it cannot give life Gal. 3. 21. If there had been a Law given which would have given life, verily Righteousness should have been by the Law; and he gives the reason in the next verse why it could not give life, because the Scripture concludes all under sin, that is, it is very true, and the Scripture affirms it, that all men are sinners, and the Law speaks not one word to sinners but death and destruction: therefore the Apostle tells us plainly, that God himself found fault with this way of attaining Righteousness, Heb. 8. 7, 8. gHe complains of it, that is, he declares it insufficient for that End and Purpose.
for saith the Apostle, if they which are of the Law be heires, faith is made void, and the Promise made of none effect, because the. Law worketh wrath, Rom. 4. 14, 15. The Law it selfe is now such as that it cannot give life Gal. 3. 21. If there had been a Law given which would have given life, verily Righteousnesse should have been by the Law; and he gives the reason in the next verse why it could not give life, because the Scripture concludes all under sinne, that is, it is very true, and the Scripture affirmes it, that all men are sinners, and the Law speaks not one word to sinners but death and destruction: therefore the Apostle tells us plainly, that God himselfe found fault with this way of attaining Righteousnesse, Heb. 8. 7, 8. gHe complaines of it, that is, he declares it insufficient for that End and Purpose.
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