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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 Promise as in that place of the Gal: 3. 29. and Heb. 6. 11. God shows to the heirs of the Promise the immutability of his Counsel: §. 35 As Abraham. Isaac, and Jacob, are said to be heirs of the same promise, Heb. 11 9. God had from the foundation of the world, made a most excellent promise in Christ, containing a deliverance from all evil; and an engagement for the bestowing all good things upon them: It contains a deliverance from all the evil which the guilt of sin, and dominion of Satan had brought upon them, with an invest ture of them in all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ Jesus: hence Heb. 9. 15. The Holy Ghost calls it a promise of the eternal inheritance. This in the first place are the adopted children of God heirs unto. Look what ever is in the promise which God made at the beginning to fallen man, and hath since solemnly renewed, and confirmed by his Oath; they are heirs of it, and ⟨p. 252⟩are accepted in their claim for their inheritance in the Court of heaven.
1 The Promise as in that place of the Gal: 3. 29. and Heb. 6. 11. God shewes to the heires of the Promise the immutability of his Councell: §. 35 As Abraham. Isaack, and Jacob, are said to be hetres of the same promise, Heb. 11 9. God had from the foundation of the world, made a most excellent promise in Christ, containing a deliverance from all evill; and an ingagement for the bestowing all good things upon them: It containes a deliverance from all the evill which the guilt of sinne, and dominion of Satan had brought upon them, with an invest ture of them in all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Jesus: hence Heb. 9. 15. The Holy Ghost calls it a promise of the eternall inheritance. This in the first place are the adopted children of God heirs unto. Look what ever is in the promise which God made at the beginning to fallen man, and hath since solemnely renewed, and confirmed by his Oath; they are heires of it, and