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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. 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.
1. Had he not been completely furnished with habitual Grace, He could never have actually fulfilled the Righteousness, which was required at his hands. It was therein that he was able to do all that he did. So himself lays down the presence of the Spirit with him as the bottom and foundation of his going forth to his work: Isa. 61, 1.1
1. Had he not been compleatly furnished with habituall Grace, He could never have actually fullfilled the Righteousnesse, which was required at his hands. It was therein that he was able to doe all that he did. So himselfe lays down the presence of the Spirit with him as the bottome and foundation of his going foth to his worke: Isa. 61, 1.1