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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. The giving a believer a new name in a white stone, Revel. 1. 17. they that are adopted are to take new names: They change their names they had in their old families, to take the names of the families whereinto they are translated. This new name is, A Child of God: that is the new name given in adoption: and no man knoweth what is in that name, but only he that doth receive it. And this new name is given, and written in a white stone; that is the Tessera of our admission into the house of God. It is a stone of judicial acquitment. Our adoption by the spirit is bottomed on our Absolution in the blood of Jesus: and therefore is the new name, in the white stone; privilege grounded on discharge. The white stone quits the claim of the old family; The new name gives entrance to the other.
1. The giving a believer a new name in a white stone, Revel. 1. 17. they that are adopted are to take new names: They change their names they had in their old families, to take the names of the families whereinto they are translated. This new name is, A Child of God: that is the new name given in adoption: and no man knoweth what is in that name, but only he that doth receive it. And this new name is given, and written in a white stone; that is the Tessera of our admission into the house of God. It is a stone of judiciall acquitment. Our adoption by the spirit is bottomed on our Absolution in the blood of Jesus: and therefore is the new name, in the white stone; priviledge grounded on discharge. The white stone quits the claime of the old family; The new name gives entrance to the other.
2. An enrolling of his name in the Catalogue of the household of God. Admitting him thereby, into fellowship therein. This is called the writing of the house of Israel, Ezek. 13. 9. that is the roll, wherein all the names of the Israel, the family of God are written. God hath a Catalogue of his household; Christ knows his sheep by name. When God writeth up the people, he counts that this man was borne in Zion,