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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 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.
2. That the Relation which this Righteousness of Christ hath to the Grace we receive from him, is only this, that thereby, he was [Greek or Hebrew], fit to do all that He had to do for us. This is the intendment of the Apostle, Heb. 7. 26. such an one became us: it was needful He should be such an one, that he might do what he had to do. And the Reasons hereof are two.
2. That the Relation which this Righteousnesse of Christ hath to the Grace we receive from him, is only this, that thereby, he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, fit to doe all that He had to doe for us. This is the intendment of the Apostle, Heb. 7. 26. such an one became us: it was needfull He should be such an one, that he might doe what he had to doe. And the Reasons hereof are two.