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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.
This is the sum: the presence of the Holy Ghost with Believers as a Comforter sent by Christ for those ends and purposes for which he is promised; is better and more profitable for Believers then any corporeal presence of Christ can be, now he hath fulfilled the one sacrifice for sin, which he was to offer.
This is the sum: the presence of the Holy Ghost with Believers as a Comforter sent by Christ for those ends and purposes for which he is promised; is better and more profitable for Believers then any corporeall presence of Christ can be, now he hath fullfilled the one sacrifice for sinne, which he was to offer.
Now the holy Spirit is promised under a twofold consideration §. 11 ⟨p. 262⟩1. As a Spirit of Sanctification to the Elect, to convert them and make them Believers; 2. As a Spirit of Consolation to Believers, to give them the privileges of the death and purchase of Christ: it is in the latter sense only wherein he is here spoken of; now as to his presence with us in this regard, and the end and purposes for which he is sent, for what is aimed at; observe,
Now the holy Spirit is promised under a twofold consideration §. 11 ⟨p. 262⟩1. As a Spirit of Sanctification to the Elect, to convert them and make them Believers; 2. As a Spirit of Consolation to Believers, to give them the priviledges of the death and purchase of Christ: it is in the latter sense onely wherein he is here spoken of; now as to his presence with us in this regard, and the end and purposes for which he is sent, for what is aymed at; observe,