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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.
2. That there be a Family unto which of himself he hath no right, whereinto he is to be grafted. If a man comes into a family upon a personal right, though originally at never so great a distance, that man is not adopted. If a man of a most remote consanguinity, do come into the inheritance of any family by the death of the nearer heirs, though his right before were little better then nothing, yet he is a borne son of that Family, he is not adopted. He is not to have the plea of the most remote possibility of succession.
2. That there be a Family unto which of himselfe he hath no right, whereinto he is to be grafted. If a man comes into a family upon a personall right, though originally at never so great a distance, that man is not adopted. If a man of a most remote consanguinity, doe come into the inheritance of any family by the death of the neerer heires, though his right before were little better then nothing, yet he is a borne son of that Family, he is not adopted. He is not to have the plea of the most remote possibility of succession.
3. That there be an Authoritative legal translation of him, by some that have power thereunto, from one family into another. It was not by the Law of old, in the power of particular persons, to adopt when, and whom they would. It was to be done by the Authority of the Sovereign power.
3. That there be an Authoritative legall translation of him, by some that have power thereunto, from one family into another. It was not by the Law of old, in the power of particular persons, to adopt when, and whom they would. It was to be done by the Authority of the Soveraigne power.
4. That the adopted person be freed from all the obligations that be upon him unto the family, from whence he is translated: otherwise he can be no way useful, or serviceable unto the family, whereinto he is engrafted: He cannot serve two masters, much less two Fathers.