A53713:664
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.
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, ⟨p. 206⟩the Son Purchasing, the Spirit effectually working, which is their order. Our participation, is first by the work of the Spirit, to an actual interest in the blood of the Son, whence we have Acceptation with the Father.
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 workes of the Spirit, and blood of the Sonne. The emanation of Divine Love to us, begins with the Father, is carried on by the Sonne, and then communicated by the Spirit: the Father Designing, ⟨p. 206⟩the Son Purchasing, the Spirit effectually working, which is their order. Our participation, is first by the work of the Spirit, to an actuall interest in the blood of the Sonne, whence we have Acceptation with the Father.
This then is the Order, whereby we are brought to Acceptation with the Father, for the Glory of God through Christ. §. 21