A53713:786
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.
1. They are by their own original right of another family, §. 4 then that whereinto they are adopted. They are by Nature the children of wrath, Eph. 2. 3. Sons of wrath: of that family whose inheritance is wrath; called the power of darkness, Col. 1. 13. For from thence doth God translate them into the Kingdom of his dear Son. This is the family of the world and of Satan, of which by nature believers are. What ever is to be inherited in that family; as wrath, curse, death, Hell, they have a right thereunto. Neither can they of themselves, or by themselves get free of this family: a strong man armed, keeps them in subjection. Their natural estate is a family condition, attended with all circumstances of a family; family duties and services; rights and titles; Relations, and observances. They are of the black family of sin, and Satan.
1. They are by their own originall right of another family, §. 4 then that whereinto they are adopted. They are by Nature the children of wrath, Eph. 2. 3. Sons of wrath: of that family whose inheritance is wrath; called the power of darknesse, Col. 1. 13. For from thence doth God translate them into the Kingdome of his deare Son. This is the family of the world and of Sathan, of which by nature believers are. What ever is to be inherited in that family; as wrath, curse, death, Hell, they have a right thereunto. Neither can they of themselves, or by themselves get free of this family: a strong man armed, keeps them in subjection. Their naturall estate is a family condition, attended with all circumstances of a family; family duties and services; rights and titles; Relations, and observances. They are of the black family of sinne, and Satan.
2. There is another family whereinto they are to be translated, §. 5 and whereunto of themselves, they have neither right nor title. This is that family in heaven and earth, which is called after the name of Christ.