A53713:795
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. It is denounced in a judicial way unto Satan, the great §. 8 master of the family whereunto they were in subjection. When ⟨p. 242⟩the Lord Christ delivers a soul from under the power of that strong armed one, he binds him: ties him from the exercise of that power and dominion which before he had over him. And by this means doth he know that such an one is delivered from his family; and all his future attempts upon him, are encroachings upon the possession, and inheritance of the Lord Christ.
2. It is denounced in a judiciall way unto Satan, the great §. 8 master of the family whereunto they were in subjection. When ⟨p. 242⟩the Lord Christ delivers a soule from under the power of that strong armed one, he binds him: tyes him from the exercise of that power and dominion which before he had over him. And by this meanes doth he know that such an one is delivered from his family; and all his future attempts upon him, are encroachings upon the possession, and inheritance of the Lord Christ.
3. Unto the Conscience of the Person adopted. The spirit of Christ testifies to the heart and Conscience of a Believer, that he is freed from all engagements unto the family of Satan, and is become the Son of God, Rom. 8. 14, 15. and enables him to cry Abba Father, Gal. 4. 6. Of the Particulars of this testification of the Spirit, and of its absolving the soul from its old alliance, I shall speak afterward. And herein consists the first thing mentioned.
3. Unto the Conscience of the Person adopted. The spirit of Christ testifies to the heart and Conscience of a Believer, that he is freed from all engagements unto the family of Satan, and is become the Son of God,