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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.
1. That the knowledge aimed at to be recovered, was given unto man in order to his walking with God, unto that supernatural §. 43 end whereunto he was appointed. For after he was furnished with all his Endowments, the Law of life and death was given to him, that he might know wherefore he received them. Therefore knowledge in him was spiritualized, and sanctified, even that knowledge which he had by nature, in respect of its principle, and end, was spiritual.
1. That the knowledge aymed at to be recovered, was given unto man in order to his walking with God, unto that supernaturall §. 43 end whereunto he was appointed. For after he was furnished with all his Endowments, the Law of life and death was given to him, that he might know wherefore he received them. Therefore knowledge in him was spiritualized, and sanctified, even that knowledge which he had by nature, in respect of its principle, and end, was spirituall.
2. That the loss of it, is part of that curse which was inflicted on us for sin. What ever we come short in of the state of the first man in innocency, whether in loss of good, or addition of evil, it is all of the curse for sin. Besides! that blindness, ignorance, ⟨p. 127⟩darkness, deadness, which is every where ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak.
2. That the losse of it, is part of that curse which was inflicted on us for sinne. What ever we come short in of the state of the first man in innocency, whether in losse of good, or addition of evill, it is all of the curse for sinne. Besides! that blindnesse, ignorance, ⟨p. 127⟩darknesse, deadnesse, which is every where ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprize that also whereof we speake.