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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. That we follow after & practice Holiness in the power of it, as it is obedience unto Jesus Christ; under this formality, as obedience to him. All Gospel-obedience is called, whatsoever Christ commands us, Mat. 28. 20. And saith he, Joh. 15. 14. ye are my friends if you do what ⟨p. 173⟩I command you: and it is required of us that we live to him who dyed for us, 2 Cor. 5. 15. live to him in all holy obedience; live to him as our Lord and King. Not that I suppose there are peculiar precepts and a peculiar law of Jesus Christ, in the observance whereof we are justified, as the Socinians fancy: for surely the Gospel requires of us no more, but to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, and all our souls, which the Law also required: but that the Lord Jesus having brought us into a condition of acceptance with God, wherein our obedience is well pleasing to him, & we being to honour him as we honour the Father, that we have a respect & peculiar regard to him in all our Obedience so Tit. 2. 14. he hath purchased us unto himself: & thus Believers do in their obedience, they eye Jesus Christ.
1. That we follow after & practice Holinesse in the power of it, as it is obedience unto Jesus Christ; under this formality, as obedience to him. All Gospell-obedience is called, whatsoever Christ commands us, Mat. 28. 20. And saith he, Joh. 15. 14. ye are my friends if you do what ⟨p. 173⟩I command you: and it is required of us that we live to him who dyed for us, 2 Cor. 5. 15. live to him in all holy obedience; live to him as our Lord and King. Not that I suppose there are peculiar precepts and a peculiar law of Jesus Christ, in the observance whereof we are justifyed, as the Socinians fancy: for surely the Gospell requires of us no more, but to love the Lord our God with all ourhearts, and all our soules, which the Law also required: but that the Lord Jesus having brought us into a condition of acceptance with God, wherein our obedince is well pleasing to him, & we being to honour him as we honour the Father, that we have a respect & peculiar regard to him in all our Obedience so