A53713:64
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.
3. When I assign any particular thing wherein we hold Communion with any Person, I do not do it exclusively unto other §. 4 Mediums of communion; but only by the way of inducing a special, and eminent Instance, for the proof and manifestation ⟨p. 17⟩of the former General Assertion: Otherwise there is no Grace, or duty wherein we have not Communion with God in the way described. In every thing wherein we are made partakers of the divine nature, there is a communication and receiving between God and us. So near are we unto him in Christ.
3. When I assigne any particularthing wherein we hold Communion with any Person, I doe not doe it exclusively unto other §. 4 Mediums of communion; but only by the way of inducing a speciall, and eminent Instance, for the proof and manifestation ⟨p. 17⟩of the former Generall Assertion: Otherwise there is no Grace, or duty wherein we have not Communion with God in the way described. In every thing wherein we are made partakers of the divine nature, there is a communication and receiving between God and us. So neare are we unto him in Christ.
4. By asserting this distinct Communion, which merely respects that order in the dispensation of Grace, which God is §. 5 pleased to hold out in the Gospel, I intend not in the least, to shut up all Communion with God under these precincts, (his ways being exceeding broad, containing a perfection whereof there is no end) nor to prejudice that holy fellowship we have with the whole Deity, in our walking before him in Covenant obedience, which also (God assisting) I shall handle hereafter.
4. By asserting this distinct Communion, which merely respects that order in the dispensation of Grace, which God is §. 5 pleased to hold out in the Gospell, I intend not in the least, to shut up all Communion with God under these precincts, (his ways being exceeding broad, containing a perfection whereof there is no end) nor to prejudice that holy fellowship we have with the whole Deity, in our walking before him in Covenant obedience, which also (God assisting) I shall handle hereafter.