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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
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Having proved that there is such a distinct Communion in §. 1 respect of Father, Son, and Spirit, as whereof we speak; it remains that it be farther cleared up by an Induction of Instances, to manifest what and wherein the Saints peculiarly hold this Communion with the several Persons respectively: which also I shall do after the premising some observations, necessary to be previously considered, as was promised, for the clearing of what hath been spoken. And they are these that follow.
HAving proved that there is such a distinct Communion in §. 1 respect of Father, Son, and Spirit, as whereof we speake; it remaines that it be farther cleared up by an Induction of Instances, to manifest what and wherein the Saints peculiarly hold this Communion with the severall Persons respectively: which also I shall doe after the premising some observations, necessary to be previously considered, as was promised, for the clearing of what hath been spoken. And they are these that follow.
1. When I assign any thing as peculiar, wherein we distinctly §. 2 hold Communion with any person, I do not exclude the other 1persons from Communion with the soul in the very same thing. Only this I say, principally, immediately and by the way of eminency, we have in such a thing, or in such a way Communion with some one Person; and therein with the others, ⟨p. 16⟩secondarily and by the way of consequence on that foundation: For the Person, as the Person of any one of them, is not the prime object of divine worship, but as it is identified with the nature or Essence of God. Now the works that outwardly are of God, (called Trinitatis ad extra) which are commonly said to be common and undivided, are either wholly so, and in all respects; as all works of Common Providence, or else being common in respect of their Acts, they are distinguished in respect of that principle, or next and immediate rise in the manner of operation; so Creation is appropriated to the Father, Redemption to the Son; in which sense we speak of these things.