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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.
Sometimes the Spirit alone is mentioned, 2 Cor. ch. 13. v. 14: The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. This distinct Communion then of the Saints with the Father, Son, and Spirit, is very plain in the Scripture; but yet, it may admit of farther Demonstration: Only this caution I must lay in before hand. Whatever is affirmed in the pursuit of this truth, it is done with Relation to the Explanation ensuing in the beginning of the next Chapter.
Sometimes the Spirit alone is mentioned, 2 Cor. ch. 13. v. 14: The Grace of the Lord Iesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. This distinct Communion then of the Saints with the Father, Son, and Spirit, is very plaine in the Scripture; but yet, it may admit of farther Demonstration: Only this caution I must lay in before hand. Whatever is affirmed in the pursuit of this truth, it is done with Relation to the Explanation ensuing in the beginning of the next Chapter.
The way and means then on the part of the Saints, whereby §. 6 in Christ they enjoy Communion with God, are all the Spiritual and holy actings, and outgoings of their souls in those Graces, 1and by those ways, wherein both the Moral, and Instituted worship of God doth consist. Faith, Love, Trust, joy, &c. are the natural or Moral worship of God, whereby those in whom they are, have Communion with him. Now these are either immediately acted on God, and not tied to any ways or means outwardly manifesting themselves, or else they are farther drawn forth, in solemn Prayer and Praises, according unto that way which he hath appointed. That the Scripture doth distinctly assign all these unto the Father, Son, and Spirit: manifesting that the Saints do, in all of them, both as they are purely and nakedly moral, and as farther clothed with instituted worship, respect each Person respectively, is that, which to give light to the assertion in hand, I shall farther declare by particular Instances.