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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.
1. It is a peculiar end of the Electing love of the Father: Ephes. 1. 4. He hath chosen us that we should be holy and unblameable. So Isa. 4. 3, 4. His aim and design in choosing of us was, that we should be Holy, and unblameable before him in love. This he is to accomplish and will bring about in them that are his. He chooses us to Salvation, through the sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth: 2 Thess. 2. 12. This the Father designed as the first and immediate end of Electing love: And proposes the Consideration of that Love, as a motive to Holiness. 1 Joh. 4. 8, 9, 10.
1. It is a peculiar end of the Electing love of the Father: Ephes. 1. 4. He hath chosen us that we should be holy and unblameable. So Isa. 4. 3, 4. His aime and designe in choosing of us was, that we should be Holy, and unblameable before him in love. This he is to accomplish and will bring about in them that are his. He chooses us to Salvation, through the sanctification of the Spirit, and beliefe of the truth: 2 Thess. 2. 12. This the Father designed as the first and immediate end of Electing love: And proposes the Consideration of that Love, as a motive to Holinesse. 1 Joh. 4. 8, 9, 10.
2. It is so also of the exceeding love of the Son, whereof the Testimonies are innumerable. I shall give but one or two: