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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.
2. They readily embrace, receive, and practise every thing that §. 28 the Lord Christ hath appointed. They enquire diligently into his mind and will, that they may know it. They go to him for directions, and beg of him to lead them in the way they have not known. The 119. Psalm may be a pattern for this. How doth the good holy soul breath after instruction in the ways and ordinances, the statutes and judgements of God? This I say they are tender in. What ever is of Christ, they willingly submit unto, accept of and give up themselves to the constant practice hereof. What ever comes on any other account they refuse.
2. They readily embrace, receive, and practise every thing that §. 28 the Lord Christ hath appointed. They enquire diligently into his minde and will, that they may know it. They goe to him for directions, and begge of him to lead them in the way they have not known. The 119. Psalme may be a patterne for this. How doth the good holy soule breath after instruction in the ways and ordinances, the statutes and judgements of God? This I say they are tender in. What ever is of Christ, they willingly submit unto, accept of and give up themselves to the constant practice hereof. What ever comes on any other account they refuse.
4. Christ manifests and evidences his love to his Saints in a way of bounty, in that rich plentiful provision he makes for them. It hath pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell, Col. ⟨p. 172⟩1. 19. and that for this end, that of his fullness we might all receive Grace for Grace, Joh. 1. 16. I shall not insist upon the particulars of that provision which Christ makes for his Saints, with all those influences of the Spirit of life and grace that daily they receive from him, that bread that he gives them to the full, the refreshment they have from him: I shall only observe this, that the Scripture affirms him to do all things for them in an abundant manner, or to do it richly in a way of bounty. Whatever he gives us, his grace to assist us, his presence to comfort us, he doth it abundantly. You have the General assertion of it