A53713:663
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.
8. Until the full time of their Actual deliverance, determined 1and appointed to them in their several generations, be accomplished, they are Personally under the curse of the Law, and on that account are Legally obnoxious to the wrath of God, from which they shall certainly be delivered. I say, they are thus personally obnoxious to the Law and the Curse thereof, but not at all with its primitive intention of execution upon them, but as it is a means appointed to help forward their acquaintance with Christ and acceptance with God, on his account; when this is accomplished, that whole obligation ceases; being continued on them in a design of Love; their last condition being such, as that they cannot without it, be brought to a participation of Christ, to the praise of the Glorious Grace of God.
8. Untill the full time of their Actuall deliverance, determined 1and appointed to them in their severall generations, be accomplished, they are Personally under the curse of the Law, and on that account are Legally obnoxious to the wrath of God, from which they shall certainly be delivered. I say, they are thus personally obnoxious to the Law and the Curse thereof, but not at all with its primitive intention of execution upon them, but as it is a meanes appointed to help forward their acquaintance with Christ and acceptance with God, on his account; when this is accomplished, that whole obligation ceases; being continued on them in a designe of Love; their last condition being such, as that they cannot without it, be brought to a participation of Christ, to the prayse of the Glorious Grace of God.
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9. The End of the dispensation of Grace, being to glorify the whole Trinity, the order fixed on, and appointed, wherein this §. 20 is to be done, is, by ascending to the Fathers Love, through the works of the Spirit, and blood of the Sonne. The emanation of Divine Love to us, begins with the Father, is carried on by the Son, and then communicated by the Spirit: the Father Designing,