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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. Look what portion soever God is pleased to give them, they have a right unto it, as it is reinvested in Christ, and not as it lies wholly under the Curse and vanity that is come upon the Creation by sin, and therefore can never be called unto an account for usurping that which they have no right unto, as shall all the sons of men, who violently grasp those things which God hath set at liberty from under their dominion because of sin.
1. Look what portion soever God is pleased to give them, they have a right unto it, as it is reinvested in Christ, and not as it lies wholly under the Curse and vanity that is come upon the Creation by sin, and therefore can never be called unto an account for usurping that which they have no right unto, as shall all the sons of men, who violently graspe those things which God hath set at liberty from under their dominion because of sinne.
2. By this their right, they are lead unto a sanctified use of what thereby they do enjoy: inasmuch as the things themselves are to them pledges of the Fathers Love, washed in the blood of Christ, and endearments upon their spirits to live to his praise, who gives them all things richly to enjoy.
2. By this their right, they are lead unto a sanctified use of what thereby they doe enjoy: in asmuch as the things themselves are to them pledges of the Fathers Love, washed in the blood of Christ, and endearements upon their spirits to live to his praise, who gives them all things rithly to enjoy.
And this is a second thing we have by our Adoption: and §. 38 hence I dare say of unbelievers: they have no true right unto any thing of what kind soever; that they do possess.