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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. For their Sanctification. 2. For their Consolation: to which two all the particular acts of purging, teaching, anointing, and the rest that are ascribed to him may be referred. So there be two way's whereby we may grieve him. 1. In respect of Sanctification. 2. In respect of Consolation.
1. For their Sanctification. 2. For their Consolation: to which two all the particular acts of purging, teaching, annoynting, and the rest that are ascribed to him may be referr'd. So there be two way's whereby we may grieve him. 1. In respect of Sanctification. 2. In respect of Consolation.
1. In respect of Sanctification; He is the Spirit of Holiness; holy in himself and the Author of Holiness in us, he works it in us Tit. 3. 5. and he persuades us to it, by those motions of his which are not be quenched. Now this in the first place grieves 1the Spirit, when he is carrying on in us, and for us, a work so infinitely for our Advantage, and without which we cannot see God, that we should run cross to him in ways of unholiness, pollution, and defilement. So the connection of the words in the place before mentioned manifests Eph. 4. 28, 29, 0, 31. and thence doth Paul bottom his powerful and most effectual persuasion unto holiness, even from the abode and indwelling of this holy Spirit with us, 1 Cor. 3. 16, 17. indeed what can grieve a loving & tender friend more then to oppose him and slight him, when he is most intent about our good; and that a good of the greatest consequence to us? In this then Believers make it their business to keep their hearts loyal and their Affections chaste to Jesus Christ. They labour instantly not to grieve the Holy Spirit by loose and foolish, by careless and negligent walking, which he hath sent to dwell and abide with them. Therefore shall no anger, wrath, malice, envy dwell in their hearts, because they are contrary to the Holy meek spirit of Christ, which he hath given to dwell with them. They attend to his motions, make use of his assistance, improve his gifts, and nothing lies more upon their Spirits then that they may walk worthy of the presence of this holy substitute of the Lord Jesus Christ.