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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
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2. He could not have been a complete and perfect Sacrifice, nor have answered all the 'types & figures of him, that were complete and without blemish: but now Christ having this Habitual Righteousness, if he had never yielded any continued ⟨p. 181⟩obedience to the Law actively, but had suffered as soon after his Incarnation, as Adam sinned after his Creation, He had been a fit Sacrifice and Offering, and therefore doubtless his following Obedience, hath another use besides to fit him for an Oblation, for which he was most fit without it.
2. He could not have been a compleat and perfect Sacrifice, nor have answered all the 'types & figures of him, that were compleat and without blemish: but now Christ having this Habituall Righteousnesse, if he had never yeilded any continued ⟨p. 181⟩obedience to the Law actively, but had suffered as soon after his Incarnation, as Adam sinned after his Creation, He had been a fit Sacrifice and Offering, and therefore doubtlesse his following Obedience, hath another use besides to fit him for an Oblation, for which he was most fit without it.
2. For Christs obedience to the Law of Mediation, wherein it is not coincident with his passive obedience as they speak (for I §. 12 know that expression is improper) it was that which was requisite for the discharging of his Office, and is not imputed unto us, as though we had done it, though the [Greek or Hebrew] and fruits of it are; but is of the nature of his Intercession; whereby He provides the good things we stand in need of, at least subserviently to his Oblation and Intercession: of which more afterwards.
2. For Christs obedience to the Law of Mediation, wherein it is not coincident with his passive obedience as they speake (for I §. 12 know that expression is improper) it was that which was requisite for the discharging of his Office, and is not imputed unto us, as though we had done it, though the and fruits of it are; but is of the nature of his Intercession; whereby He provides the good things we stand in need of, at least subserviently to his Oblation and Intercession: of which more afterwards.