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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.
3. To the Glory of the Father, we are accepted with him, justified, freed from guilt, pardoned, and have peace with God, Rom. 5. 1. Thus, through Christ we have Access by one spirit unto the Father, 2 Ephes. 2. 18. And thus are both Father and Son, and the Holy Spirit, Glorified in our justification, and acceptation with God: the Father in his Free Love, the Son in his Full purchase, and the Holy Spirit in his effectual working.
3. To the Glory of the Father, we are accepted with him, justified, freed from guilt, pardoned, and have peace with God, Rom. 5. 1. Thus, through Christ we have Accesse by one spirit unto the Father, 2 Ephes. 2. 18. And thus are both Father and Sonne, and the Holy Spirit, Glorified in our justification, and acceptation with God: the Father in his Free Love, the Sonne in his Full purchase, and the Holy Spirit in his effectuall working.
10. All this, in all the parts of it, is no less fully procured for us, nor less freely bestowed on us, for Christs sake and on his §. 22 account, as part of his purchase and merits; then if all of us immediately upon his death, had been translated into Heaven; only this way of our deliverance and freedom, is fixed on, that the whole Trinity may be glorified thereby. And this may suffice in answer to the first Objection. Though our Reconciliation with God be fully and completely procured by the death of Christ, and all the ways and means whereby it is accomplished, yet we are brought unto an Actual enjoyment thereof, by the way and in the order mentioned, for the praise of the Glorious Grace of God.
10. All this, in all the parts of it, is no lesse fully procured for us, nor lesse freely bestowed on us, for Christs sake and on his §. 22 account, as part of his purchase and merits; then if all of us immediatly upon his death, had been translated into Heaven; only this way of our deliverance and freedome, is fixed on, that the whole Trinity may be glorified thereby. And this may suffice in answer to the first Objection. Though our Reconciliation with God be fully and compleatly procured by the death of Christ, and all the ways and meanes whereby it is accomplished, yet we are brought unto an Actuall enjoyment thereof, by the way and in the order mentioned, for the praise of the Glorious Grace of God.