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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.
These Objections being Removed, and having at the entrance of this Chapter, declared what is done on the part of Christ, as §. 35 to our fellowship with him, in this purchased Grace, as to our Acceptation with God; It remains that I now show, what also is required and performed on our part, for the completing thereof: this then consists in the ensuing particulars.
These Objections being Removed, and having at the entrance of this Chapter, declared what is done on the part of Christ, as §. 35 to our fellowship with him, in this purchased Grace, as to our Acceptation with God; It remaines that I now shew, what also is required and performed on our part, for the compleating thereof: this then consists in the ensuing particulars.
1. The Saints cordially approve of this Righteousness, as that alone which is absolutely complete, and able to make them acceptable §. 36 before God. And this supposeth Five things:
1. The Saints cordially approve of this Righteousnesse, as that alone which is absolutely compleat, and able to make them acceptable §. 36 before God. And this supposeth Five things:
1. Their clear and full conviction of the necessity of a Righteousness, wherewith to appear before God. This is always in their thoughts. This in their whole lives they take for granted. Many men spend their days in obstinacy and hardness, adding drunkenness unto thirst, never once enquiring what their condition shall be, when they enter into Eternity. Others trifle away their times and their souls, sowing the wind of empty hopes, and preparing to reap a whirlwind of wrath. But this lies at the bottom of all the Saints communion with Christ. A deep fixed, resolved persuasion, of an absolute and indispensable necessity of a Righteousness, wherewith to appear before God. The Holiness of Gods nature, the Righteousness of his Government, the severity of his Law, the Terror of his wrath, are always before them. They have been all convinced of sin, and have looked on themselves, as ready to sink under the vengeance due to it. They have all cried, Men and Brethren, what shall we do to be saved? Wherewith shall we appear before God? And have all concluded, that it is in vain to flatter themselves with hopes of escaping as they are by nature; if God be Holy, and Righteous, and of purer eyes then to