A53713:531
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. As the Author of their Faith and Obedience for whose sake it is given to them to believe, Phil. 1. 29. and who by his Spirit works that obedience in them. So the Apostle Heb. 12. 1, 2. in the course of our obedience we still look to Jesus the Author of our Faith; Faith is here both the grace of Faith; and the fruit of it in obedience.
1. As the Author of their Faith and Obedience for whose sake it is given to them to believe, Phil. 1. 29. and who by his Spirit works that obedience in them. So the Apostle Heb. 12. 1, 2. in the course of our obedience we still look to Jesus the Author of our Faith; Faith is here both the grace of Faith; and the fruite of it in obediemce.
2. As He, in, for, and by whom we have acceptance with God §. 30 in our obedience. They know, all their duties are weak, imperfect, not able to abide the presence of God; and therefore they look to Christ as he who bears the iniquity of their Holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds of their duties, end makes them acceptable to God.
2. As He, in, for, and by whom we have acceptance with God §. 30 in our obedience. They know, all their dutys are weake, imperfect, not able to abide the presence of God; and therefore they looke to Christ as he who beares the iniquity of their Holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds of their dutys, end makes them acceptable to God.