Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

There is no acquaintance with God, as love, and full of Kindness, Patience, Grace and pardoning Mercy, on which knowledge of him alone we can walk with him, but only in Christ; but of this fully before. This then also is hid in him.

There is no acquaintance with God, as love, and full of Kindnesse, Patience, Grace and pardoning Mercy, on which knowledge of him alone we can walke with him, but only in Christ; but of this fully before. This then also is hid in him.

3. There must moreover be a way wherein we must walk with God: God did at the beginning assigned us a path to walk ⟨p. 122⟩in with him: even the path of Innocency and exact Holiness in a Covenant of works. This path by sin, is so filled with thorns and briers, so stopped up by curses and wrath, that no flesh living can take one step in that path: a new way for us to walk in, must be found out, if ever we think to hold communion with God. And this also lies upon the former account. It is hid in Christ: All the world cannot, but by and in him, discover a path, that a man may walk one step with God in. And therefore the holy Ghost tells us, that Christ hath consecrated, dedicated, and set apart for that purpose, a new and living way into the holyest of all, Heb. 10. 20. a new one, for the first old one was useless, a living one, for the other is dead: therefore saith he v. 22. let us draw near; having a way to walk in, let us draw near. And this way that he hath prepared is no other but himself, Joh. 14. 5. in answer to them, who would go to the Father, and hold Communion with him, he tells them, I am the way and no man cometh to the Father, but by me. He is the medium of all Communication between God and us: In him we meet, in him we walk: all influences of Love, Kindness, Mercy, from God to us, are through him; all our returns of Love, Delight, Faith, Obedience unto God, are all through him. He being that one way, God so often promiseth his people: and it is a glorious way,