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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.
1. That it is free, he is given. 2. That it is orderly, ordered in all things and sure; from the love of the Father, by the procurement of the son; and thence is that variety of expression, of the Fathers sending him, and the Son's sending him from the Father; he being the gift of the Father's love, and the purchase of the blood of the son; 3. The efficacy of it, as was last observed. And this is the second thing considerable.
1. That it is free, he is given. 2. That it is orderly, ordered in all things and sure; from the love of the Father, by the procurement of the sonne; and thence is that variety of expression, of the Fathers sending him, and the Son's sending him from the Father; he being the gift of the Father's love, and the purchase of the blood of the sonne; 3. The efficacy of it, as was last observed. And this is the second thing considerable.
3. The third, which is our receiving him, I shall speak more briefly of. That which I first proposed, of the spirit considered §. 22 as a spirit of Sanctification, and a spirit of consolation, is here to be minded. Our receiving of him, as a spirit of sanctification is a mere passive reception, as a vessel receive's water. He comes as the wind on Ezekiel's dead bones, and makes them live. He comes into dead hearts, and quickens them, by an act of his Almighty power: but now as he is the spirit of consolation, it is otherwise; in this sense our Saviour tells us that the world cannot receive him, Joh. 14 17. the world receiveth him not, because it seeth him not, nor knows him: but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and abideth in you. That it is the spirit of consolation, or the spirit for consolation that here is promised, is evident from the close of the verse where he is said, then to be in them, when he is promised to them. He was in them as a spirit of quickening and sanctification when promised to them, as a spirit of comfort and consolation, to abide with them for that purpose. Now the power, that is here denied to be in the world, with the reason of it, that they cannot receive the spirit, because they know him not, is ascribed to Believers; they can receive him, because they know him. So that