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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.
2. It is so also of the exceeding love of the Son, whereof the Testimonies are innumerable. I shall give but one or two: Tit. 2. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. This was his aim his design in giving himself for us: as Ephes. 5. 26, 27. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word: that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish. 2 Cor. 5. 15. Rom. 6. 5.
2. It is so also of the exceeding love of the Son, whereof the Testimonys are innumerable. I shall give but one or two: Tit. 2. 14. Who gave himselfe for us, that he might redeem us from all inquity, and purify to himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good workes. This was his aime his designe in giving himselfe for us: as Ephes. 5. 26, 27. Christ loved the Church and gave himselfe for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word: that he might present it to himselfe a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish. 2 Cor. 5. 15. Rom. 6. 5.
3. It is the very work of the Love of the Holy Ghost: his whole work upon us, in us, for us consists in preparing of us for Obedience, enabling of us thereunto, and bringing forth the