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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.
And this is the threefold consideration of the death of Christ, as it is a principal spring and fountain of that Grace wherein we have communion with him: for, as will appear in our process, the single and most eminent part of purchased grace, is nothing but the natural exurgency of the threefold effects of the death of Christ, intimated to flow from it, on the account of the threefold consideration insisted on. This then is the Second rise of purchased Grace, which we are to eye, if we will hold communion with Christ in it, his death and bloodsheding, under this threefold notion, of a price, an offering, and punishment.
And this is the threefold consideration of the death of Christ, as it is a principall spring and fountain of that Grace wherein we have communion with him: for, as will appeare in our processe, the single and most eminent part of purchased grace, is nothing but the naturall exurgency of the threefold effects of the death of Christ, intimated to flow from it, on the account of the threefold consideration insisted on. This then is the Second rise of purchased Grace, which we are to eye, if we will hold communion with Christ in it, his death and bloodsheding, under this threefold notion, of a price, an offering, and punishment.
But Thirdly this is not all; the Lord Christ goes farther yet: He doth not leave us so: but follows on the work to the utmost: §. 31 He dyed for our sins, and rose again for our justification; He 1rose again to carry on the complete work of purchased Grace; that is, by his Intercession; which is the Third rise of it. In respect of this he is said to be able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him, seeing he liveth ever to make intercession for them, Heb. 7. 27.
But Thirdly this is not all; the Lord Christ goes farther yet: He doth not leave us so: but followes on the work to the utmost: §. 31 He dyed for our sinnes, and rose again for our justification; He