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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. 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.
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 possesse.
They have no true, unquestionable right I say even unto the temporal things they do possess; it is true they have a civill right in respect of others, but they have not a sanctified right in respect of their own Souls. They have a right and Title that will hold plea in the Courts of men, but not a right that will hold in the court of God, and in their own Conscience. It will one day be sad with them when they shall come to give an account of their enjoyments. They shall not only be reckoned withal for the abuse of that they have possessed, that they have not used, & laid it out for the glory of him whose it is but also that they have ever laid their hands upon the Creatures of God, and kept them from them for whose sakes alone they are preserved from destruction. When the God of Glory shall come home to any of them, either in their consciences here, or in the