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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.
3. That this obedience of Christ being done for us, is reckoned graciously of God, unto us, and upon the account thereof, are we accepted as Righteous before him. My intendment is not to handle this difference in the way of a controversy, but to give such an understanding of the whole, as may speedily be reduced to the practice of Godliness and consolation: and this I shall do in the ensuing Observations.
3. That this obedience of Christ being done for us, is reckoned graciously of God, unto us, and upon the account thereof, are we accepted as Righteous before him. My intendment is not to handle this difference in the way of a controversy, but to give such an understanding of the whole, as may speedily be reduced to the practice of Godlinesse and consolation: and this I shall doe in the ensuing Observations.
1. That the Obedience that Christ yielded to the Law in §. 14 general, is not only to the peculiar law of the Mediator, though he yielded it as Mediator. He was incarnate as Mediator, Heb. 2. 14. & Gal. 4. 4. And all He afterwards did, it was as our Mediator: for that cause came he into the World, and did, and suffered, ⟨p. 182⟩what ever He did or suffered in this world. So that of this expression, as Mediator, there is a twofold sense: for it may be taken strictly, as relating solely to the Law of the Mediator, and so Christ may be said to do as Mediator, only what he did in obedience to that ••w; but in the sense now insisted on, what ever Christ did as a man subject to any Law, he did it as Mediator, because he did it as part of the duty incumbent on him, who undertook so to be.
1. That the Obedience that Christ yeelded to the Law in §. 14 generall, is not only to the peculiar law of the Mediator, though he yeilded it as Mediator. He was incarnate as Mediator,