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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.
Thus is this whole business stated by the Apostle: Ephes. 1. 4. according as hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. It begins in the love of God: and ends in our love to him. That is it which the Eternal Love of God, aims at in us, and works us up unto. It is true; our universal obedience falls within the Compass of our Communion with God: but that is with him as God, our blessed Sovereign Lawgiver, and Rewarder; As he is the Father, our Father in Christ, as revealed unto us to be Love, above and contrary to all the Expectations of the natural man, so it is in love that we have this intercourse with him. Nor do I intend only that love, which is as the life and form of all moral obedience; but a peculiar delight and acquiescing in the Father revealed effectually as love unto the soul.
Thus is this whole businesse stated by the Apostle: Ephes. 1. 4. according as hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. It begins in the love of God: and ends in our love to him. That is it which the Eternall Love of God, aymes at in us, and workes us up unto. It is true; our universall obedience falls within the Compasse of our Communion with God: but that is with him as God, our blessed Soveraigne Lawgiver, and Rewarder; As he is the Father, our Father in Christ, as revealed unto us to be Love, above and contrary to all the Expectations of the naturall man, so it is in love that we have this entercourse with him. Nor doe I intend only that love, which is as the life and forme of all morall obedience; but a peculiar delight and acquiescing in the Father revealed effectually as love unto the soule.
That this Communion with the Father in Love may be made §. 16 the more clear and evident, I shall show two things.
That this Communion with the Father in Love may be made §. 16 the more cleare and evident, I shall shew two things.