Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

That which remains for me to do, is, to show how Believers hold distinct communion with Christ, in this Grace of Acceptation, §. 9 and how thereby they keep alive a sense of it, the comfort and life of it being to be renewed every day. Without this, life is an Hell; no Peace, no Joy can we be made partakers of, but what hath its rise from hence. Look what grounded persuasion we have of our Acceptation with God, that He is at peace with us, thereunto is the revenue of our Peace, Comfort, Joy, yea and Holiness it self proportioned.

That which remaines for me to doe, is, to shew how Believers hold distinct communion with Christ, in this Grace of Acceptation, §. 9 and how thereby they keep alive a sense of it, the comfort and life of it being to be renewed every day. Without this, life is an Hell; no Peace, no Joy can we be made partakers of, but what hath its rise from hence. Look what grounded perswasion we have of our Acceptation with God, that He is at peace with us, thereunto is the revenue of our Peace, Comfort, Joy, yea and Holinesse it selfe proportioned.

But yet before I come in particular to handle our practical communion with the Lord Jesus, in this thing; I must remove §. 10 two considerable objections, the one of them lying against the first part of our Acceptation with God, the other against the latter.

But yet before I come in particular to handle our practicall communion with the Lord Jesus, in this thing; I must remove §. 10 two considerable objections, the one of them lying against the first part of our Acceptation with God, the other against the latter.

Ob 1. For our Absolution by, & upon the death of Christ, it may be said; that if the Elect have their Absolution, Reconciliation and Freedom, by the Death, Blood and Cross of Christ, whence is it then, that they are not all Actually absolved, at the death of Christ, or at least so soon as they are borne, but that