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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.
2. He gives us Habitual Grace: a principle of Grace opposed to §. 11 the principle of lust that is in us by nature. This is the Grace that dwells in us; makes its abode with us, which according to the distinct faculties of our souls wherein it is, or the distinct objects about which it is exercised, receiveth various Appellations, being indeed all but one new principle of life. In the understanding it is light, in the will obedience, in the Affections love, in all Faith. So also it is differenced in respect of its operations: when it carries out the soul to rest on Christ, it is Faith; when to delight in him, it is Love; but still one and the same habit of Grace. And this is the second thing.
2. He gives us Habituall Grace: a principle of Grace opposed to §. 11 the principle of lust that is in us by nature. This is the Grace that dwells in us; makes its abode with us, which according to the distinct faculties of our soules wherein it is, or the distinct objects about which it is exercised, receiveth various Appellations, being indeed all but one new principle of life. In the understanding it is light, in the will obedience, in the Affections love, in all Faith. So also it is differenced in respect of its operations: when it carries out the soule to rest on Christ, it is Faith; when to delight in him, it is Love; but still one and the same habit of Grace. And this is the second thing.
3. Actual influence for the performance of every spiritual duty whatever. After the Saints have both the former, yet Christ §. 12 ⟨p. 197⟩tells them that without him they can do nothing, Joh. 15. 5. They are still in dependence upon him, for new influences of Grace, or supplies of the spirit, they cannot live and spend upon the old stock: for every new act they must have new Grace: He must work in us to will and to do of his good pleasure,