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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.
And this is that which is the main of the Saints Title and right which they have by adoption: which in sum is, that the Lord is their portion, and inheritance, and they are the inheritance of the Lord; And a large portion it is that they have. The lines are fallen to them in a goodly place.
And this is that which is the maine of the Saints Title and right which they have by adoption: which in summe is, that the Lord is their portion, and inheritance, and they are the inheritance of the Lord; And a large portion it is that they have. The lines are fallen to them in a goodly place.
2. Besides this Principal, the adopted Sons of God have a second §. 36 consequential Right: a Right unto the things of this world that is, unto all the portions of it, which God is pleased to entrust them here withal. Christ is the heir of all things, Heb. 1. 3. All Right, and title to the things of the Creation was lost, and forfeited by sin. The Lord by his sovereignty, had made an original grant of all things here below for mans use; he had appointed the residue of the works of his hands in their several stations, to be serviceable unto his behoof. Sin reversed this whole grant, and institution: all things were set at liberty from the subjection unto him: yet that liberty being a taking ⟨p. 253⟩them off from the end, to which they were originally appointed, is a part of their vanity, and curse. It is evil to any thing to be Laid aside as to the end, to which it was primitively appointed: by this means the whole Creation is turned loose from any subordinate ruler; And man having lost the whole Title whereby he held his dominion over, and possession of the creatures, hath not the least colour of interest in any of them, nor can lay any claim unto them; but now the Lord intending to take a portion to himself, out of the lump of fallen mankind, whom he appointed heirs of Salvation, he doth not immediately destroy the works of creation, but reserve them for their use in their pilgrimage. To this end he invests the whole right and title of them in the second Adam, which the first had lost; he appoints him, heir of all things. And thereupon his adopted ones, being fellow heirs with Christ, become also to have a right and title unto the things of this creation.