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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.
1. By the Church is this wisdom made known to the Angels: either as the doctrine of the Gospel is delivered unto it, or as it is gathered thereby. And what is this Wisdom of God, that is thus made known to principalities and powers? It is that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body with us, v. 6. The mystery of Adopting sinners of the Gentiles, taking them from their slavery in the family of the World, that they might have a right of heirship, becoming Sons in the family of God, is this wise. dome thus made known. And how was it primitively made known? It was revealed by the spirit unto the Prophets and Apostles, v. 5.
1. By the Church is this wisdome made known to the Angells: either as the doctrine of the Gospell is delivered unto it, or as it is gathered thereby. And what is this Wisdome of God, that is thus made known to principalities and powers? It is that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body with us, v. 6. The mystery of Adopting sinners of the Gentiles, taking them from their slavery in the family of the World, that they might have a right of heirship, becoming Sons in the family of God, is this wise. dome thus made known. And how was it primitively made known? It was revealed by the spirit unto the Prophets and Apostles, v. 5.
2. In Particular by Immediate Revelation. When any particular soul is freed from the family of this World, it is revealed to the Angels. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God (that is among the Angels, and by them) over one sinner that Repenteth, Luke 15. v. 10. Now the Angels cannot of themselves absolutely know the true Repentance of a sinner in it self. It is a work wrought in that Cabinet, which none hath a key unto but Jesus Christ: by him it is revealed to the Angels, when the peculiar care, and charge of such an one is committed to them. These things have their transaction before the Angels, Luk. 12. v. 8, 9. Christ owns the names of his brethren before the Angels;