A53713:360
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.
2. That if all former debts should be blotted out, yet they are no way able for the future, to fulfil the Law; they can as well move the earth with a finger, as answer the perfection thereof; and therefore as I said, on this twofold account, they conclude that this labour is lost, by the kworks of the Law shall no flesh be justified.
2. That if all former debts should be blotted out, yet they are no way able for the future, to fulfill the Law; they can as well move the earth with a finger, as answer the perfection thereof; and therefore as I said, on this twofold account, they conclude that this labour is lost, by the kworkes of the Law shall no flesh be justified.
Wherefore Secondly, being thus disappointed by the severity §. 33 and inexorableness of the Law, men generally betake themselves to some other way, that may satisfy them as to those considerations, which took them off from their former hopes; and this for the most part, is, by fixing themselves upon some ways of Atonement to satisfy God, and helping out the rest with hopes of Mercy. Not to insist on the ways of Atonement and expiation which the Gentiles had pitched on, nor on the many ways and inventions by works satisfactory of their own, supererogations of others, indulgences, and Purgatory in the close, that the Papists have found out for this End and purpose, it is I say, proper to all convinced persons, as above, to seek for a Righteousness, partly by an endeavour to satisfy for what is past, and partly by hoping after General Mercy. This the Apostle calls a seeking for it, as it were by the works of the Law; Rom. 9. 32.