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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.
Now to complete Communion with the Father in love, two §. 13 things are required of Believers;
Now to compleat Communion with the Father in love, two §. 13 things are required of Believers;
1. That they receive it of him. 2. That they make suitable returns unto him.
1. That they receive it of him. 2. That they make suitable returnes unto him.
1. That they do receive it. Communion consists in giving and receiving. Until the Love of the Father be received, we have no Communion with him therein. How then is this Love of the Father; to be received, so as to hold fellowship with him? I answer, by Faith. The receiving of it, is the believing of it. God hath so fully, so eminently revealed his Love, that it may be received by Faith. You believe in God, John chap. 14. 1. that is, the Father; and what is to be believed in him? His love; for, he is love 1 John 8. 8.
1. That they doe receive it. Communion consists in giving and receiving. Untill the Love of the Father be received, we have no Communion with him therein. How then is this Love of the Father; to be received, so as to hold fellowship with him? I answer, by Faith. The receiving of it, is the believing of it. God hath so fully, so eminently revealed his Love, that it may be received by Faith. You believe in God, John chap. 14. 1. that is, the Father; and what is to be believed in him? His love; for, he is love 1 John 8. 8.