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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.
If you will say then, what are the true and proper Gospel §. 25 Grounds, Reasons, Uses, and Motives of our Obedience, whence the necessity thereof may be demonstrated, and our souls be stirred up, to abound and be fruitful therein? I say they are so many & lye so deep in the Mystery of the Gospel, and Dispensation of Grace, spread themselves so throughout the whole Revelation of the will of God unto us, that to handle them fully and distinctly, and to give them their due weight, is a thing that I cannot engage in, least I should be turned aside from what I principally intend. I shall only give you some brief heads of what might at large be insisted on.
If you will say then, what are the true and proper Gospell §. 25 Grounds, Reasons, Uses, and Motives of our Obedience, whence the necessity thereof may be demonstrated, and our soules be stirred up, to abound and be fruitfull therein? I say they are so many & lye so deep in the Mystery of the Gospell, and Dispensation of Grace, spread themselves so throughout the whole Revelation of the will of God unto us, that to handle them fully and distinctly, and to give them their due weight, is a thing that I cannot engage in, least I should be turned aside from what I principally intend. I shall only give you some briefe heads of what might at large be insisted on.
1. Our universal Obedience, and good works, are indispensably necessary from the sovereign appointment and will §. 26 of God: Father. Son, and Holy Ghost.
1. Our universall Obedience, and good workes, are indispensably necessary from the soveraigne appointment and will §. 26 of God: Father. Son, and Holy Ghost.
1. In General: this is the will of God, even our Sanctification, or Holiness