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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.
The third-thing wherein we have communion with Christ is Grace of Privilege before God: I mean as §. 1 the third head of purchased Grace. The privileges we enjoy by Christ, are great and innumerable. To insist on them in particular, were work for a mans whole life, not a design to be wrapped up in a few sheets. I shall take a view of them only in the Head, the spring and Fountain whence they all arise and flow. This is our Adoption. Beloved, now we are the Sons of God. 1 Joh. 3. 2. This is our great and fountain privilege. Whence is it that we are so? it is from the Love of the Father, v. 1. Behold, what love the Father hath given unto us, that we should be called the sons of God. But by whom immediately do we receive this honour? As many as believe on Christ, he gives them this power to become the Sons of God, Joh. 1. 12. Himself was appointed to be the first borne among many brethren, Rom: 8. 29. and his taking us to be brethren, Heb. 2. 11. makes us become the Children of God. Now that God is our Father, by being the Father of Christ, and we his children, by being the brethren of Christ, being the head and sum of all the honour, privilege, right, and Title we have, let us a little consider the nature of that act, whereby we are invested with this state and title; namely our Adoption.
THe third-thing wherein we have communion with Christ is Grace of Priviledge before God: I meane as §. 1 the third head of purchased Grace. The priviledges we enjoy by Christ, are great and innumerable. To insist on them in particular, were work for a mans whole life, not a designe to be wrapped up in a few sheets. I shall take a view of them only in the Head, the spring and Fountain whence they all arise and flow. This is our Adoption. Beloved, now we are the Sons of God. 1 Ioh. 3. 2. This is our great and fountain priviledge. Whence is it that we are so? it is from the Love of the Father, v. 1. Behold, what love the Father hath given unto us, that we should be called the sons of God. But by whom immediatly doe we receive this honour? As many as believe on Christ, he gives them this power to become the Sons of God, Ioh. 1. 12