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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. The matter comes at length to this Issue: they look upon themselves under this twofold qualification: as
1. Sinners; obnoxious to the Law of God, and the curse thereof: so that unless that be satisfied, that nothing from thence shall ever be laid to their charge, it is altogether in vain, once to seek after an appearance in the presence of God.
1. Sinners; obnoxious to the Law of God, and the curse thereof: so that unlesse that be satisfied, that nothing from thence shall ever be laied to their charge, it is altogether in vaine, once to seek after an appearance in the presence of God.
2. As Creatures, made to a supernatural and Eternal End, and therefore bound to Answer the whole mind and will of God in the Obedience required at their hands Now it being before discovered to them, that both these are beyond the compass of their own endeavours, and the Assistance which they have formerly rested on, if their Eternal condition be of any concernment to them, their Wisdom is, to find out a Righteousness that may Answer both these to the utmost.
2. As Creatures, made to a supernaturall and Eternall End, and therefore bound to Answer the whole mind and will of God in the Obedience required at their hands Now it being before discovered to them, that both these are beyond the compasse of their own endeavours, and the Assistance which they have formerly rested on, if their Eternall condition be of any concernment to them, their Wisdome is, to find out a Righteousnesse that may Answer both these to the utmost.