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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.
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: 1 Cor. 13. 10. where love is in any duty it is complete in Christ. How often doth David even with admiration express this principle of his walking with God: Oh (saith he) how I love thy Commandments. This gives Saints delight, that the Commandments of Christ are not grievous to them: Jacobs hard service was not grievous to him, because of his love to Rachel: No duty of a Saint is grievous to him, because of his love to Christ: They do from hence all things with delight and Complacency: Hence do they long for advantages of walking with God, pant after more ability, and this is a great share of their Son-like freedom in obedience. It gives them joy in it: 1 John 4. 18. there is no fear in Love, but perfect love casteth out fear: when their soul is acted to obedience by love; it expels that fear which is the issue of bondage upon the Spirit. Now when there is a concurrence of these two, Life, and Love, there is freedom, liberty, largeness of heart, exceedingly distanced from that straight, and bondaged frame, which many walk in all their days, that know not the Adoption of Sons.
2. Love, as to the manner of their obedience gives them delight and joy: