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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. It considers the spirit in the Economy before described, as promised. It is Faith alone, that makes profit of the benefit of the §. 23 promises: Heb. 4. 2. now he is called the spirit of that promise, Eph: 2. 13. the spirit that in the covenant is promised, and we receive the promise of the spirit through Faith, Gal. 3. 14. so that the receiving of the Spirit through Faith, is the receiving of him as promised: faith eyes the promise of God, and of Jesus Christ, of sending the spirit for all those ends, that he is desired: thus it depends, waits, mixing the promise with it self, until it receive him.
1. It considers the spirit in the Oeconomy before described, as promised. It is Faith alone, that makes profit of the benefit of the §. 23 promises: Heb. 4. 2. now he is called the spirit of that promise, Eph: 2. 13. the spirit that in the covenant is promised, and we receive the promise of the spirit through Faith, Gal. 3. 14. so that the receiving of the Spirit through Faith, is the receiving of him as promised: faith eyes the promise of God, and of Jesus Christ, of sending the spirit for all those ends, that he is desired: thus it depends, waits, mixing the promise with it selfe, untill it receive him.
2. By Prayer: He is given as a spirit of supplication, that we may ask him as a spirit of consolation, Luk. 11. 13. and indeed this asking of the Spirit of God, in the name of Christ, either directly or immediately, or under the name of some fruit and effect of him, is the chiefest work of faith in this World.
2. By Prayer: He is given as a spirit of supplication, that we may aske him as a spirit of consolation,