A53713:952
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.
5. He seals us. We are sealed by the holy Spirit of promise Eph. §. 11 1. 13. and grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption; chap. 4. 30. I am not very clear in the certain peculiar intendment of this Metaphor, what I am persuaded of the mind of God in it, I shall briefly impart. In a seal two things are Considered,
5. He seales us. We are sealed by the holy Spirit of promise Eph. §. 11 1. 13. and grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption; chap. 4. 30. I am not very clear in the certaine peculiar intendment of this Metaphor, what I am perswaded of the mind of God in it, I shall briefely impart. In a seale two things are Considered,
1. The nature of it. 2. The use of it.
The nature of sealing consists in the imparting of the ⟨p. 281⟩image or character of the seal to the thing sealed; This is to seal a thing; to stamp the character of the seal on it. In this sense the effectual Communication of the image of God unto us, should be our sealing. The Spirit on Believers really communicating the image of God in Righteousness and true Holiness unto the Soul, sealeth us. To have this stamp of the Holy Ghost, so as to be an evidence unto the soul that it is accepted with God, is to be sealed by the spirit; taking the Metaphor from the nature of sealing. And in this sense is our Saviour 1said to be sealed of God: Joh. 6. 27. even from that impression of the power, wisdom and majesty of God that he had upon him in the discharge of his Office.