A53713:823
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.
3. The Law of the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, sets them free from the law of sin and death: it frees them, it carries them out to all obedience freely. So that they walk after the Spirit, v. 1. that being the Principle of their workings, G. 2. 20. Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, is by the faith of the Son of God: the life which I now live in the flesh, that is the obedience which I yield unto God, whilst I am in the flesh, it is from a Principle of life, Christ living in me: There is then power for all living unto God, from Christ in them, the spirit of life, from Christ carrying them out thereto. The fruits of a dead root, are but dead excrescencies; living Acts are from a principle of life.
3. The Law of the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, sets them free from the law of sin and death: it frees them, it carries them out to all obedience freely. So that they walk after the Spirit, v. 1. that being the Principle of their workings, G. 2. 20. Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, is by the faith of the Son of God: the life which I now live in the fiesh, that is the obedience which I yeeld unto God, whilest I am in the flesh, it is from a Principle of life, Christ living in me: There is then power for all living unto God, from Christ in them, the spirit of life, from Christ carrying them out thereto. The fruits of a dead root, are but dead excrescencies; living Acts are from a principle of life.
Hence you may see the difference between the liberty that §. 21 slaves assume, and the liberty which is due to children.
1. Slaves take liberty from duty; children have liberty in duty; there is not a greater mistake in the world, then that the liberty of Sons in the house of God, consists in this, they can perform duties, or take the freedom to omit them; they can serve in the family of God; that is, they think they may if they will, and they can choose whether they will or no. This is a liberty stolen by Slaves, not a liberty given by the Spirit unto Sons.