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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. Liberty: The spirit of the Lord, that was upon the Lord Jesus did anoint him to proclaim liberty to the captive: Isaiah: 67. 1. And where the spirit of God is, (that is the spirit of Christ given to us by him because we are Sons) there is Liberty: 2 Cor. 3. 17. All spiritual liberty is from the spirit of Adoption. What ever else is pretended, is licentiousness. So the Apostle argues, Gal. 4. 6, 7. he hath sent forth his spirit into their hearts crying Abba Father, wherefore ye are no more Servants, no more in bondage, but have the liberty of Sons; And this Liberty respects in the first place, the family from whence the adopted person is translated; it is his setting free from all the obligations of that family.
1. Liberty: The spirit of the Lord, that was upon the Lord Jesus did anoint him to proclaime liberty to the captive: Esay: 67. 1. And where the spirit of God is, (that is the spirit of Christ given to us by him because we are Sons) there is Liberty: 2 Cor. 3. 17. All spirituall liberty is from the spirit of Adoption. What ever else is pretended, is licentiousnesse. So the Apostle argues, Gal. 4. 6, 7. he hath sent forth his spirit into their hearts crying Abba Father, wherefore ye are no more Servants, no more in bondage, but have the liberty of Sons; And this Liberty respects in the first place, the family from whence the adopted person is translated; it is his setting free from all the obligations of that family.
Now in this sense, the liberty which the Saints have by Adoption, §. 12 is either from that which is real, or that which is pretended; that which is real respects a twofold issue of Law, and Sin. The moral unchangeable Law of God, and Sin, being in conjunction, meeting with reference to any persons, hath, and hath had a twofold issue;