A53713:558
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.
This then is the Obedience of Christ, which was the first thing §. 11 proposed to be considered. The next is, that it hath an influence into the Grace of which we speak, wherein we hold communion with him, namely our free Acceptation with God: what that influence is, must also follow in its order.
This then is the Obedience of Christ, which was the first thing §. 11 proposed to be considered. The next is, that it hath an influence into the Grace of which we speake, wherein we hold communion with him, namely our free Acceptation with God: what that influence is, must also follow in its order.
1. For his habitual Righteousness, I shall only propose it under these two considerations:
1. For his habituall Righteousnesse, I shall only propose it under these two considerations:
1. That upon this supposition, that it was needful that we should have a Mediator that was God and Man in one person, as it could not otherwise be, it must needs be, that He must be so holy. For all though there be but one primary necessary effect of the Hypostatical union, which is the subsistence of the humane nature in the person of the Son of God, yet that He that was so united to him, should be an holy thing, completely holy; was necessary also; of which before.
1. That upon this supposition, that it was needfull that we should have a Mediator that was God and Man in one person, as it could not otherwise be, it must needs be, that He must be so holy. For all though there be but one primary necessary effect of the Hypostaticall union, which is the subsistence of the humane nature in the person of the Sonne of God, yet that He that was so united to him, should be an holy thing, compleatly holy; was necessary also; of which before.