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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.
4. Having thus by Faith given up their sins to Christ, & seen God laying them all on him, they draw nigh, and take §. 53 from him, that Righteousness which he hath wrought out for them: so fulfilling the whole of that of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5. 21. He was made sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. They consider him tendering himself and his Righteousness, to be their Righteousness before God: they take it, and accept of it, and complete this blessed bartering and exchange of Faith. Anger, Curse, Wrath, death, sin as to its guilt, He took it all, and takes it all away; with him we leave what ever of this nature belongs to us, and from him we receive, Love, Life, Righteousness and peace.
4. Having thus by Faith given up their sinnes to Christ, & seen God laying them all on him, they draw nigh, and take §. 53 from him, that Righteousnesse which he hath wrought out for them: so fulfilling the whole of that of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5. 21. He was made sinne for us, that we might become the righteousnesse of God in him. They consider him tendering himselfe and his Righteousnesse, to be their Righteousnesse before God: they take it, and accept of it, and compleat this blessed bartering and exchange of Faith. Anger, Curse, Wrath, death, sinne as to its guilt, He took it all, and takes it all away; with him we leave what ever of this nature belongs to us, and from him we receive, Love, Life, Righteousnesse and peace.
Obj. But it may be said, surely this course of procedure can §. 54 never be acceptable to Jesus Christ: What? shall we daily come to him, with our Filth, our Guilt, our Sins? may He not, will He not bid us keep them to our selves, they are our own; shall we be always giving sins, and taking Righteousness?
Obj. But it may be said, surely this course of procedure can §. 54 never be acceptable to Jesus Christ: What? shall we daily come to him, with our Filth, our Guilt, our Sinnes? may He not, will He not bid us keep them to our selves, they are our own; shall we be allwaies giving sinnes, and taking Righteousnesse?