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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.
This is all I shall for the present insist on to this purpose; that the passive Righteousness of Christ only, is imputed to us, in the non-imputation of sin, and that on the Condition of our faith and new obedience, so exalting them into the room of the Righteousness of Christ, is a thing which in Communion with the Lord Jesus, I have as yet no acquaintance withal: what may be said in the way of Argument on the one side or other, must be elsewhere considered.
This is all I shall for the present insist on to this purpose; that the passive Righteousnesse of Christ only, is imputed to us, in the non-imputation of sinne, and that on the Condition of our faith and new obedience, so exalting them into the roome of the Righteousnesse of Christ, is a thing which in Communion with the Lord Jesus, I have as yet no acquaintance withall: what may be said in the way of Argument on the one side or other, must be elsewhere considered.
The second spring of our Communion with Christ in purchased Grace, is his death and Oblation. He lived for us; he dyed for us. He was ours in all he did, in all he suffered.1
- 1Tantane me tenuit vivendi nate, voluptas. Ut pro me hostili paterer succedere dextrae, quem genui? tuane haec genitor per vulnera servor morte tua vivens? Virgil Aeneid. lib. 10. 845.
I shall be the more brief in handling of this because on another design I have elsewhere at large treated of all the concernments 1of it.