A53713:578
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.
Rom. 5. 18, 19. By the Righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto Justification of Life, By the Obedience of one many §. 21 shall be made Righteous, saith the Holy Ghost. By his Obedience to the Law, are we made Righteous, it is reckoned to us for Righteousness. That the passive Obedience of Christ is here only intended, is false.
Rom. 5. 18, 19. By the Righteousnesse of one, the free gift came upon all men unto Justification of Life, By the Obedience of one many §. 21 shall be made Righteous, saith the Holy Ghost. By his Obedience to the Law, are we made Righteous, it is reckoned to us for Righteousnesse. That the passive Obedience of Christ is here only intended, is false.
First it is opposed to the disobedience of Adam which was active. The [Greek or Hebrew], is opposed [Greek or Hebrew]: the Righteousness to ⟨p. 186⟩the fault. The fault was an active transgression of the Law; and the Obedience opposed to it must be an active accomplishment of it. Besides obedience placed singly in its own nature denotes an Action, or Actions conformable to the Law; and therein came Christ, not to destroy but to fulfil the Law; Math. 5. 17. that was the design of his coming; and so for us; he came to fulfil the Law for us, Isa. 9. 6. and borne to us; Luk. 2. 11. This also was in that will of the Father, which out of his infinite Love he came to accomplish. 2. It cannot clearly be evinced that there is any such thing in propriety of speech, as passive Obedience: obeying is doing; to which passion or suffering cannot belong: I know it is commonly called so, when men obey until they suffer; but properly it is not so.