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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 like also is said of Love. 1 John chap. 2. v. 15. If any man love the world, the Love of the Father is not in him. That is, the Love which we bear to him, not that which we receive from §. 8 him. The Father is here placed, as the Object of our Love, in Opposition to the World, which takes up our Affections [Greek or Hebrew]; The Father denotes the matter and object, not the efficient cause of the love enquired after. And this Love of him as a Father, is that which he calls his Honour, Mal. 1. 6.
The like also is said of Love. 1 John chap. 2. v. 15. If any man love the world, the Love of the Father is not in him. That is, the Love which we beare to him, not that which we receive from §. 8 him. The Father is here placed, as the Object of our Love, in Opposition to the World, which takes up our Affections 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; The Father denotes the matter and object, not the efficient cause of the love enquired after. And this Love of him as a Father, is that which he calls his Honour, Mal. 1. 6.
Further, These Graces as acted in prayer and Praises, and as clothed with instituted worship, are peculiarly directed unto him. §. 9 We call on the Father 1 Pet. 1. 17. Eph. ch. 3. v. 14, 15. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named. Bowing the knee, compriseth the whole worship of God, both that which is moral, in the universal obedience he requireth, and those peculiar ways of carrying it on, which are by him appointed.