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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.
3. They lay down their sins at the Cross of Christ, upon §. 52 his shoulders; This is Faiths great and bold venture upon the Grace, Faithfulness and Truth of God. To stand by the cross and say, ah! He is bruised for my sins, and wounded for my transgressions, and the chastisement of my peace is upon him. He is thus made sin for me. Here I give up my sins to him that is able to bear them, to undergo them. He requires it of my hands, that I should be content that he should undertake for them, and that I heartily consent unto. This is every days work. I know ⟨p. 223⟩not how any peace can be maintained with God, without it. If it be the work of souls to receive Christ, as made sin for us, we must receive him, as one that takes our sins upon him. Not as though he dyed any more, or suffered any more: but as the faith of the Saints of old, made that present, and done before their eyes (not come to pass, Heb. 11. 1.) So faith now, makes that present, which was accomplished and past many generations ago. This it is to know Christ Crucified.
3. They lay downe their sinnes at the Crosse of Christ, upon §. 52 his shoulders; This is Faiths great and bold venture upon the Grace, Faithfulnesse and Truth of God. To stand by the crosse and say, ah! He is bruised for my sinnes, and wounded for my transgressions, and the chastisement of my peace is upon him. He is thus made sinne for me. Here I give up my sinnes to him that is able to beare them, to undergoe them. He requires it of my hands, that I should be content that he should undertake for them, and that I heartily consent unto. This is every days worke. I know ⟨p. 223⟩not how any peace can be maintained with God, without it. If it be the work of soules to receive Christ, as made sinne for us, we must receive him, as one that takes our sinnes upon him. Not as though he dyed any more, or suffered any more: but as the faith of the Saints of old, made that present, and done before their eyes (not come to passe, Heb. 11. 1.) So faith now, makes that present, which was accomplished and past many generations agoe. This it is to know Christ Crucified.