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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.
1. Of Acceptation with God; out of Christ, we are in a state of Alienation from God: accepted neither in our Persons, nor our §. 2 Services. Sin makes a separation between God and us: that 1state, with all its consequences, and attendencies, is not my business to unfold. The first issue of Purchased Grace, is to restore us into a state of Acceptation; and this is done two ways.
1. Of Acceptation with God; out of Christ, we are in a state of Alienation from God: accepted neither in our Persons, nor our §. 2 Services. Sinne makes a separation between God and us: that 1state, with all its consequences, and attendencies, is not my businesse to unfold. The first issue of Purchased Grace, is to restore us into a state of Acceptation; and this is done two waies.
1. By a Removal of that for which we are refused, the cause of the Enmity. 2. By a bestowing of that for which we are ⟨p. 193⟩accepted. Not only all causes of quarrel were to be taken away, that so we should not be under displeasure; but also that was to be given unto us, that makes us the objects of God's delight and pleasure: on the account of the want whereof we are distanced from God.
1. By a Removeall of that for which we are refused, the cause of the Enmity. 2. By a bestowing of that for which we are ⟨p. 193⟩