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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.
The liberty of Sons is in the inward spiritual freedom of their hearts naturally and kindly going out in all the ways and worship of God. When they find themselves straitened, and shut up in them, they wrestle with God for enlargement, and are never contented with the doing of a duty, unless it be done as in Christ, with free genuine and enlarged hearts. The liberty that servants have is from duty, the liberty given to Sons is in duty.
The liberty of Sons is in the inward spirituall freedome of their hearts naturally and kindly going out in all the ways and worship of God. When they find themselves straitened, and shut up in them, they wrestle with God for enlargement, and are never contented with the doing of a duty, unlesse it be done as in Christ, with free genuine and enlarged hearts. The liberty that servants have is from duty, the liberty given to Sons is in duty.
2. The liberty of slaves or servants is from mistaken deceiving conclusions; The liberty of Sons is from the power of the indwelling Spirit of Grace; or the liberty of servants is from ⟨p. 247⟩outward dead conclusions, the liberty of Sons from an inward living principle.
2. Love, as to the manner of their obedience gives them delight and joy: Joh. 14. 15. If ye love me (says Christ keep my Commandments: Love is the bottom of all their duties: hence our Saviour resolves all obedience into the love of God, and our Neighbour: and Paul upon the same ground tells us, that Love is the fulfilling of the Law: