A53713:564
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. 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 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.
3. About his Actual fulfilling of the Law, or doing all things that of us are required, there is some doubt and question: and §. 13 about it there are three several opinions.
3. About his Actuall fulfilling of the Law, or doing all things that of us are required, there is some doubt and question: and §. 13 about it there are three severall opinions.
1. That this Active Obedience of Christ, hath no farther influence into our Justification and Acceptation with God, but as it was preparatory to his blood shedding and oblation, which is the sole cause of our Justification, the whole Righteousness which is imputed to us, arising from thence.