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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.
2. Its Impossibility for accomplishment, and so insufficiency for its primitively appointed end.
3. The Issues of its transgression, which are referred unto two heads: 1. Curse: 2. Death. I shall speak very briefly of these, because they are commonly handled, and granted by all.
2. That which is pretended, is the power of any whatever §. 13 over the conscience, when once made free by Christ.
First then, Believers are freed from the instituted Law of Ordinances, which upon the testimony of the Apostles, was a yoke §. 14 which neither we nor our Fathers (in the faith) could bear, Acts 15. 10. Wherefore Christ blotted out this hand writing of Ordinances that was against them, which was contrary to them, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his Cross: Col: 2. 14. and thereupon the Apostle after a long dispute concerning the Liberty that we have from that Law, concludes with this instruction,