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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.
It remaineth only to intimate in a word, Wherein this distinction §. 16 lies, and what is the Ground thereof. Now this is, that the Father doth it by the way of Original Authority; the Son by the way of Communicating from a purchased Treasury; the Holy Spirit by the way of immediate Efficacy.
It remaineth only to intimate in a word, Wherein this distinction §. 16 lyes, and what is the Ground thereof. Now this is, that the Father doth it by the way of Originall Authority; the Son by the way of Communicating from a purchased Treasury; the Holy Spirit by the way of immediate Efficacy.
1. The Father Communicates all Grace by the way of Original Authority. He Quickeneth WHOM HE WILL. John chap. 5. 21. Of HIS OWN WILL, begat he us. Jam. 1. 18. Life-giving power is in respect of Original Authority invested in the Father by the way of Eminency: and therefore in sending of the quickening Spirit, Christ is said to do it from the Father, or the Father himself to do it. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send John chap. 14. v. 26. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send from the Father. John 15. v. 26, Though he be also said to send him himself, on another account Joh. 16. 7.
1. The Father Communicates all Grace by the way of Originall Authority. He Quickneth WHOM HE WILL. John chap. 5. 21. Of HIS OWN WILL, begat he us. Jam. 1. 18. Life-giving power is in respect of Originall Authority invested in the Father by the way of Eminency: and therefore in sending of the quickning Spirit, Christ is said to do it from the Father, or the Father himselfe to doe it. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send