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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. They seriously consider, and by Faith conquer all objections to the contrary, that Jesus Christ by the will and appointment of the Father, hath really undergone the punishment that was due to those sins, they lay now under his eye and consideration. Isa. 53. 6. 2 Cor. 5. 21. He hath as certainly and really answered the Justice of God, for them, as if he himself, the sinner, should at that instant be cast into Hell, he could do.
1. They seriously consider, and by Faith conquer all objections to the contrary, that Jesus Christ by the will and appointment of the Father, hath really undergone the punishment that was due to those sinnes, they laye now under his eye and consideration. Isa. 53. 6. 2 Cor. 5. 21. He hath as certainly and really answered the Justice of God, for them, as if he himselfe, the sinner, should at that instant be cast into Hell, he could doe.
2. They hearken to the voice of Christ calling them to him §. 51 with their burden; come unto me ye that are weary and heavy laden: come with your burdens: Come thou (poor soul) with thy guilt of sin: why what to do? why, this is mine saith Christ: this Agreement I made with my Father, that I should come, and take thy sins, and hear them away: They were my lot. Give me thy burden, give me all thy sins; thou knowest not what to do with them, I know how to dispose of them well enough, so that God shall be glorified and thy soul delivered. Hereupon,
2. They hearken to the voyce of Christ calling them to him §. 51 with their burden; come unto me ye that are weary and heavy laden: come with your burdens: Come thou (poor soule) with thy guilt of sinne: why what to doe? why, this is mine saith Christ: this Agreement I made with my Father, that I should come, and take thy sinnes, and heare them away: They were my lot. Give me thy burden, give me all thy sinnes; thou knowest not what to doe with them, I know how to dispose of them well enough, so that God shall be glorifyed and thy soule delivered. Hereupon,