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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. 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⟩accepted. Not only all causes of quarrell were to be taken away, that so we shouldnot be under displeasure; but also that was to be given untous, that makes us the objects of God's delight and pleasure: on the account of the want whereof we are distanced from God.
1. It gives a Removal of that for which we are refused. §. 3 This is sin in the guilt, and all the attendencies thereof. The first issue of Purchased Grace tends to the taking away of sin in its guilt, that it shall not bind over the Soul to the wages of it, which is death.
1. It gives a Removeall of that for which we are refused. §. 3 This is sinne in the guilt, and all the attendencies thereof. The first issue of Purchased Grace tends to the takeing away of sinne in its guilt, that it shall not bind over the Soule to the wages of it, which is death.
How this is accomplished and brought about by Christ, was evidenced in the close of the foregoing Chapter. It is the fruit §. 4 and effect of his death for us. Guilt of sin was the only cause of our separation and distance from God, as hath been said. This made us obnoxious to wrath, punishment, and the whole displeasure of God. On the account hereof, were we imprisoned under the curse of the Law, and given up to the power of Satan. This is the state of our unacceptation. By his death, Christ, bearing the Curse, undergoing the punishment that was due to us, paying the ransom that was due for us, delivers us from this condition. And thus far, the death of Christ, is the sole cause of our Acceptation with God; that all cause of quarrel and rejection of us, is thereby taken away: and to that end, are his sufferings reckoned to us: For being made sin for us, 2 Cor 5. 21. He is made righteousness unto us, 2 Cor. 1. 31.