A53713:894
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. [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.
2. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or dispensatory, in respect of the worke of grace: of the first, in which respect he is the Spirit of the Father and the Sonne, proceeding from both eternally, so receiving his substance and personality; I speake not: It is a businesse of another nature then that, I have now in hand. Therein indeed lyes 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 progresse, 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.