A53713:956
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. To appropriate, distinguish or keep safe; this is the end of §. 13 sealing; men set their seals on that, which they appropriate, and desire to keep safe for themselves: so evidently in this sense, are the servants of God said to be sealed Revel. 7. 4. that is, marked with Gods mark, as his peculiar ones, for this sealing answers to the setting of a mark Ezek. 9. Then are Believers sealed when they are marked for God, to be heirs of the purchased ⟨p. 282⟩inheritance, and to be preserved to the day of Redemption. Now if this be the sealing intended, it denotes not an act of sense in the heart but of security to the person: The Father gives the Elect into the hands of Christ to be redeemed: having redeemed them in due time, they are called by the Spirit, and marked for God, and so give up themselves to the hands of the Father.
2. To appropriate, distinguish or keep safe; this is the end of §. 13 fealing; men set their seales on that, which they appropriate, and desire to keep safe for themselves: so evidently in this sence, are the servants of God said to be sealed Revel. 7. 4. that is, marked with Gods marke, as his peculiar ones, for this sealing answers to the setting of a mark Ezek. 9. Then are Believers sealed when they are marked for God, to be heires of the purchased ⟨p. 282⟩inheritance, and to be preserved to the day of Redemption. Now if this be the sealing intended, it denotes not an act of sense in the heart but of security to the person: The Father gives the Elect into the hands of Christ to be redeemed: having redeemed them in due time, they are called by the Spirit, and marked for God, and so give up themselves to the hands of the Father.