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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 both these are to be had only in the Lord Christ, who is our Righteousness; This Wisdom, and all the Treasures of it, are hid in him.
Now both these are to be had only in the Lord Christ, who is our Righteousnesse; This Wisdome, and all the Treasures of it, are hid in him.
1. He Expiates former iniquities, he satisfies for sin, and procures Remission of it: Rom. 3. 24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. All we like sheep &c. Isa. 53. 5, 6. In his blood we have Redemption, the forgiveness of sins, Ephes. 1. 7. God spared not him, but gave him &c. Rom. 8. 32. This, even this alone is our Righteousness, as to that first part of it which consists in the removal of the whole guilt of sin, whereby we are come short of the glory of God. On this Account it is, that we are assured, that none shall ever lay any thing to our charge, or condemn us: Rom. 8. 31, 34. there being no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus: v. 1. we are purged by the Sacrifice of Christ, so as to have no more Conscience of sin, Heb. 10. 2. that is, troubles in Conscience about it. This Wisdom is hid only in the Lord Jesus; in him alone is there an Atonement discovered: and give me the Wisdom which shall cut all scores concerning sin, and let the world take what remains. But