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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.
I say this is our Liberty in our Fathers family; what we have liberty from, hath been already declared.
There be Gibeonites outwardly attending the family of God: that do the service of his house, as the drudgery of their lives; the principle they yield obedience upon, is a spirit of bondage unto fear, Rom. 8. 15. the Rule they do it by, is the Law in its dread and rigour, exacting it of them to the utmost, without mercy and mitigation; the End they do it for, is to fly from the wrath to come, to Pacify conscience, and seek righteousness as it were by the works of the Law. Thus servilely, painfully, fruitlessly, they seek to serve their own conviction all their days.
There be Gibeonites outwardly attending the family of God: that doe the service of his house, as the drudgery of their lives; the principle they yeeld obedience upon, is a spirit of bondage unto feare, Rom. 8. 15. the Rule they doe it by, is the Law in its dread and rigor, exacting it of them to the utmost, without mercy and mitigation; the End they doe it for, is to fly from the wrath to come, to Pacify conscience, and seek righteousnesse as it were by the workes of the Law. Thus servilely, painfully, fruitlessely, they seek to serve their own conviction all their daies.
The Saints, by Adoption have a largeness of heart in all holy obedience, saith David, I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts, §. 20 Psal. 119. 4, 5. Isaiah 61. 1 Luke 4 18. Rom 8. 2, 21.