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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.
The second is Grace of Sanctification; He makes us not only §. 7 accepted, but also acceptable. He doth not only purchase Love, for his Saints but also makes them lovely. He came not by blood only, but by water, and blood. He doth not only Justify his Saints from the guilt of sin, but also sanctify and wash them from the filth of sin: the first is from his life and death as a Sacrifice of Propitiation, this from his death as a purchase, and his life as an example. So the Apostle Heb. 9. 14. as also Eph. 5. 26, 27. Two things are eminent in this Issue of Purchased Grace; 1. The removal of defilement; 2. The bestowing of cleanness, in Actual Grace.
The second is Grace of Sanctification; He makes us not only §. 7 accepted, but also acceptable. He doth not only purchase Love, for his Saints but also makes them lovely. He came not by blood only, but by water, and blood. He doth not only Justify his Saints from the guilt of sinne, but also sanctify and wash them from the filth of sinne: the first is from his life and death as a Sacrifice of Propitiaton, this from his death as a purchase, and his life as an example. So the Apostle Heb. 9. 14. as also Eph. 5. 26, 27. Two things are eminent in this Issue of Purchased Grace; 1. The removall of defilement; 2. The bestowing of cleannesse, in Actuall Grace.
For the first, it is also threefold; 1. The habitual cleansing of §. 8 our nature. We are naturally unclean, defiled; habitually so. For who can bring a clean thing, from that which is unclean, Job. 14. 4. That which is borne of the flesh is flesh Joh. 3. 6. It is in the pollution of our blood that we are borne,