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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.
Being the Spring from whence floweth all the purifying virtue, which in the Issue will take away all their Spots and Stains; make them holy and without blemish, and (in the end) present them glorious unto himself, Eph. 5. 26, 27. This they dwell upon with thoughts of faith; they roll it in their minds and spirits. Here faith obtains new life, new vigour, when a sense of vileness hath even overwhelmed it. Here is a fountain opened; draw nigh and see its beauty, purity, efficacy. Here is a foundation laid of that work, whose accomplishment we long for. One moments Communion with Christ by faith herein, is more effectual to the purging of the soul, to the increasing of Grace, then the utmost self endeavours of a 1000 ages.
Being the Spring from whence floweth all the purifying vertue, which in the Issue will take away all their Spots and Staines; make them holy and without blemish, and (in the end) present them glorious unto himselfe, Eph. 5. 26, 27. This they dwell upon with thoughts of faith; they roll it in their minds and spirits. Here faith obtaines new life, new vigor, when a sence of vilenesse hath even overwhelmed it. Here is a fountaine opened; draw nigh and see its beauty, purity, efficacy. Here is a foundation laid of that worke, whose accomplishment we long for. One moments Communion with Christ by faith herein, is more effectuall to the purging of the soule, to the increasing of Grace, then the utmost selfe endeavours of a 1000 ages.
2. §. 11 They Eye the Blood of Christ, as the Blood of Sprinkling. Coming to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant, they come to ⟨p. 235⟩the Blood of Sprinkling Heb. 12. 24. The eying of the blood of