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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. What influence it hath into the Grace, whereof we speak.
2. What influence it hath into the Grace, whereof we speake.
To the handling of this, I shall only premise this Observation: namely; that in the order of procurement, the Life of Christ, (as was necessary:) precedeth his death, and therefore we shall handle it in the first place: But in the order of Application, the Benefits of his death are bestowed on us, antecedently ⟨p. 177⟩in the nature of the things themselves, unto those of his life; as will appear, and that necessarily from the state and condiwherein we are.
To the handling of this, I shall only premise this Observation: namely; that in the order of procurement, the Life of Christ, (as was necessary:) precedeth his death, and therefore we shall handle it in the first place: But in the order of Application, the Benefits of his death are bestowed on us, antecedently ⟨p. 177⟩in the nature of the things themselves, unto those of his life; as will appeare, and that necessarily from the state and condiwherein we are.
1. By the Obedience of the life of Christ, I intend the universal §. 5 Conformity of the Lord Jesus Christ, as he was, or is in his being Mediator, to the whole will of God; and his complete actual fulfilling of the whole of every Law of God, or doing of all, that God in them required. He might have been perfectly holy by obedience to the Law of Creation, the Moral Law, as the Angels were: neither could any more as a man walking with God