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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.
1. The nature of that house, it is made up of such persons, §. 32 as it is impossible that any but adopted children should have right unto a place in it; it is composed of living stones 1 Pet. ••5. a chosen Generation, a roy all people, an holy Nation, a peculiar. people. v. 9. Saints & faithful in Christ Jesus Eph. 1. 1. Saints, & faithful brethren Col. 1. 2. a People that are all righteous Isa. 60. 61. And the whole fabric of it glorious Is. 54. 11, 12, 13, 14 The way of the house is a way of holiness which the unclean shall not pass through Ch. 35. 8. Yea expressly they are the sons, and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, and they only 2 Cor, 6. 17, 18. All others are excluded Revel. 21, 27. It is true that oftentimes at unawares other persons creep in into the great house of God; and so there becomes in it not only vessels of Gold & Silver, but also of wood and clay, &c. 2 Tim. 2. 20. But they only creep in as Jude speaks: v. 4. they have no right nor title to it.
1. The nature of that house, it is made up of such persons, §. 32 as it is impossible that any but adopted children should have right unto a place in it; it is composed of living stones 1 Pet. ••5. a chosen Generation, a roy all people, an holy Nation, a peculiar. people. v. 9. Saints & faithfull inChrist Jesus Eph. 1. 1. Saints, & faithfull brethren Col. 1. 2. a People that are all righteous Isa. 60. 61. And the whole fabrick of it glorious Is. 54. 11, 12, 13, 14 The way of the house is a way of holinesse which the uncleane shall not passe through Ch. 35. 8. Yea expressly they are the sons, and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, and they only 2 Cor, 6. 17, 18. All others are excluded Revel. 21, 27. It is true that oftentimes at unawares other persons creep in into the great house of God; and so there becomes in it not only vessels of Gold & Silver, but also of wood and clay, &c.