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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.
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.
The way and meanes then on the part of the Saints, whereby §. 6 in Christ they enjoy Communion with God, are all the Spirituall and holy actings, and outgoings of their soules in those Graces, 1and by those waies, wherein both the Morall, and Instituted worship of God doth consist. Faith, Love, Trust, joy, &c. are the naturall or Morall worship of God, whereby those in whom they are, have Communion with him. Now these are either immediately acted on God, and not tyed to any waies or meanes outwardly manifesting themselves, or else they are farther drawn forth, in solemne Prayer and Praises, according unto that way which he hath appointed. That the Scripture doth distinctly assigne all these unto the Father, Sonne, and Spirit: manifesting that the Saints doe, in all of them, both as they are purely and nakedly morall, and as farther cloathed 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.
- 1Hic tibi praecipue sit puramente colendus.