A53713:671
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.
1. The placing of our Gospel Obedience, on the right foot of account, that it may neither be exalted into a state, condition, Use, nor End, not given it of God, nor any Reason, Cause, Motive, end, necessity of it on the other hand, taken away, weakened or impaired, is a matter of Great importance. Some make our Obedience, the works of Faith, our works, the matter or cause of our Justification; Some the condition of the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, some the qualification of the Person justified, on the one hand; some exclude all the necessity of them, and turn the Grace of God into lasciviousness on the other. To debate these differences, is not my present business: only I say, on this and other accounts, the right stating of our Obedience, is of great importance as to our walking with God.
1. The placeing of our Gospell Obedience, on the right foot of account, that it may neither be exalted into a state, condition, Use, nor End, not given it of God, nor any Reason, Cause, Motive, end, necessity of it on the other hand, taken away, weakned or impaired, is a matter of Great importance. Some make our Obedience, the workes of Faith, our workes, the matter or cause of our Justification; Some the condition of the Imputation of the Righteousnesse of Christ, some the qualification of the Person justifyed, on the one hand; some exclude all the necessity of them, and turne the Grace of God into lasciviousnesse on the other. To debate these differences, is not my present businesse: only I say, on this and other accounts, the right stating of our Obedience, is of great importance as to our walking with God.
2. We do by no means, assign the same place, condition, state and use, to the Obedience of Christ, imputed to us, and §. 24 our Obedience performed to God. If we did, they were really inconsistent. And therefore those, who affirm that our Obedience is the Condition or Cause of our Justification, do all of them deny, the Imputation of the Obedience of Christ unto us. The Righteousness of Christ is imputed to us, as that on the account whereof we are accepted, and esteemed Righteous before God, and are really so, though not inherently. We are as truly Righteous with the Obedience of Christ, imputed to us, as Adam was or could have been, by a complete Righteousness of his own performance. So