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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. In the Sovereign Grant, Appointment, and Design of the Father, giving and delivering the Elect to Jesus Christ in this §. 13 Covenant, to be redeemed and reconciled to himself, Joh. 17. 6. thine they were, and thou gavest them to me. They were Gods by Eternal Designation and Election, and He gave them to Christ to be redeemed: Hence before their calling or believing, He calls them his sheep, Joh. 10. 15, 16. laying down his life for them as such; And hence are we said to be chosen in Christ, Eph. 1. 4. or designed to obtain all the fruits of the Love of God by Christ, and committed into his hand, for that end and purpose.
2. In the Soveraigne Grant, Appointment, and Designe of the Father, giving and delivering the Elect to Jesus Christ in this §. 13 Covenant, to be redeemed and reonciled to himselfe, Joh. 17. 6. thine they were, and thou gavest them to me. They were Gods by Eternall Designation and Election, and He gave them to Christ to be redeemed: Hence before their calling or believing, He calls them his sheep, Joh. 10. 15, 16. laying downe his life for them as such; And hence are we said to be chosen in Christ, Eph. 1. 4. or designed to obtain all the fruits of the Love of God by Christ, and committed into his hand, for that end and purpose.
3. In his undertaking to suffer what was due to them, and to do what was to be done by them, that they might be delivered, §. 14 reconciled, and accepted with God. And he undertakes to give in to the Father, without loss or miscarriage, what he had so received of the Father as above,