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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. §. 20 Our Returns are all in him, and by him also. And well is it with us, that it is so. What lame and blind Sacrifices, should we otherwise present unto God. He dbears the Iniquity of our Offerings, and he adds Incense unto our Prayers. Our love is ⟨p. 27⟩fixed on the Father, but it is conveyed to him, through the Son of his Love. He is the only way for our Graces, as well as our Persons to go unto God: through him passeth all our desire, our delight, our Complacency, our Obedience. Of which more afterwards.
2. §. 20 Our Returnes are all in him, and by him also. And well is it with us, that it is so. What lame and blind Sacrifices, should we otherwise present unto God. He dbeares the Iniquity of our Offerings, and he addes Incense unto our Prayers. Our love is ⟨p. 27⟩fixed on the Father, but it is conveyed to him, through the Son of his Love. He is the only way for our Graces, as well as our Persons to goe unto God: through him passeth all our desire, our delight, our Complacency, our Obedience. Of which more afterwards.
- dEx 28. 38. Revel 83 Joh. 14. 6. Heb. 10. 20, 21, 22.
Now in these two things, there is some Resemblance, between that mutual Love of the Father and the Saints, wherein they hold Communion. §. 20