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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. The mutual Love of God and the Saints agree in §. 18 this, that the way of communicating the Issues and fruits of these Loves, is only in Christ. The Father Communicates no Issue of his Love unto us but through Christ: and we make no Return of Love unto him but through Christ: He is the Treasure wherein the Father disposeth all the Riches of his Grace taken from the bottomless Mine of his Eternal Love; and he is the Priest, ⟨p. 26⟩into whose hand we put all the Offerings, that we return unto the Father. Thence he is first, and by way of eminency said to love the Son: not only as his Eternal Son, as he was the delight of his soul before the foundation of the World, Prov. 8. 30. but also as our Mediator, and the means of conveying his love to us; Mat. 3. 17. John 3. 33. John 5. 21. John 10. 17. John 15. 9. John 17. 24. And we are said through him to believe in, and to have access to God.
2. The mutuall Love of God and the Saints agree in §. 18 this, that the way of communicating the Issues and fruits of these Loves, is only in Christ. The Father Communicates no Issue of his Love unto us but through Christ: and we make no Returne of Love unto him but through Christ: He is the Treasure wherein the Father disposeth all the Riches of his Grace taken from the bottomelesse Mine of his Eternall Love; and he is the Priest, ⟨p. 26⟩into whose hand we put all the Offerings, that we returne unto the Father. Thence he is first, and by way of eminency said to love the Sonne: not only as his Eternall Son, as he was the delight of his soule before the foundation of the World,