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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. When the same thing, is at the same time, ascribed jointly, §. 14 and yet distinctly to all the Persons in the Deity, and respectively to each of them. So are Grace and Peace, Revel: chap. 1. v. 4, 5. Grace be unto you and Peace from him which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness &c. The seven spirits before the Throne, are the Holy Spirit of God, considered as the perfect fountain of every perfect Gift and dispensation. All are here joined together, and yet all mentioned as distinguished in their Communication of Grace and Peace, unto the Saints. Grace and Peace be unto you, from the Father, and from &c,
1. When the same thing, is at the same time, ascribed joyntly, §. 14 and yet distinctly to all the Persons in the Deity, and respectively to each of them. So are Grace and Peace, Revel: chap. 1. v. 4, 5. Grace be unto you and Peace from him which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse &c. The seaven spirits before the Throne, are the Holy Spirit of God, considered as the perfect fountaine of every perfect Gift and dispensation. All are here joyned together, and yet all mentioned as distinguished in their Communication of Grace and Peace, unto the Saints. Grace and Peace be unto you, from the Father, and from &c,
2. When the same thing is attributed severally and singly unto each person. There is indeed, no gracious Influence from above, no Elapse of Light, Life, Love, or grace upon our hearts, §. 15 but proceedeth in such a dispensation. I shall give only one ⟨p. 13⟩Instance, which is very comprehensive, and may be thought to comprise all other particulars; and this is TEACHING. The Teaching of God, is the real Communication of all and every particular Emanation from himself unto the Saints, whereof they are made partakers. That promise, they shall be all taught of God, enwraps in it self the whole Mystery of Grace, as to its actual dispensation unto us, so far as we may be made real possessors of it. Now this is assigned,