A53713:893
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. For the fountain of his coming it is mentioned Joh. 15. 26 [Greek or Hebrew], He proceedeth from the Father; this §. 12 is the fountain of this dispensation; He proceedeth from the Father; now there is a twofold [Greek or Hebrew] or procession of the Spirit.
1. For the fountaine of his coming it is mentioned Joh. 15. 26 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He proceedeth from the Father; this §. 12 is the fountaine of this dispensation; He proceedeth from the Father; now there is a twofold 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or procession of the Spirit.
1. [Greek or Hebrew], in respect of Substance and personality.
1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in respect of Substance and personality.
2. [Greek or Hebrew] or dispensatory, in respect of the work of grace: of the first, in which respect he is the Spirit of the Father and the Son, proceeding from both eternally, so receiving his substance and personality; I speak not: It is a business of another nature then that, I have now in hand. Therein indeed lies the first & most remote foundation of all our distinct Communion with him and our worship of him. But because abiding in the naked consideration hereof, we can make no other progress, then the bare acquiescence of Faith in the mystery revealed with the performance of that which is due to the Person, solely on the account of his Participation of the Essence, I shall not at present dwell upon it.