A53713:811
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
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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, Gal. 5. 1. stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.
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 beare, 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, nayling it to his Crosse: Col: 2. 14. and thereupon the Apostle after a long dispute concerning the Liberty that we have from that Law, concludes with this instruction, Gal. 5. 1. stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.
2. In reference to the Moral Law! the first thing we have liberty from, is its rigour, and terror in commanding, Heb. 12 §. 15 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. We are not come to the Mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, to the whirl-wind, darkness, and tempest, to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard besought that they might hear it no more; But we are come to mount Zion &c. As to that administration of the Law wherein it was given out with dread, and terror, and so exacted its obedience with rigour, we are freed from it, we are not called to that estate.