A53713:957
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.
If you ask now which of these senses is chiefly intended in this expression of our being sealed by the Holy Ghost; I answer the first, not excluding the other; we are sealed to the Day of Redemption, when from the stamp, image, and Character of the Spirit upon our souls, we have a fresh sense of the love of God given to us with a comfortable persuasion of our acceptation with 1him. But of this whole matter I have treated at large elsewhere.
If you aske now which of these senses is chiefly intended in this expression of our being sealed by the Holy Ghost; I answer the first, not excluding the other; we are sealed to the Day of Redemption, when from the stamp, image, and Character of the Spirit upon our soules, we have a fresh sence of the love of God given to us with a comfortable perswasion of our acceptation with 1him. But of this whole matter I have treated at large elsewhere.
- 1Pers. of Saints cap.
Thus then the Holy Ghost communicates unto us his own likeness, which is also the image of the Father and the Sonne. We are changed into this image by the Lord the Spirit: 2 Cor. 3. 18. And herein he brings us into fellowship with himself. Our likeness to him, gives us boldness with him: His work we look for, his fruits we pray for; and when any effect of Grace, any discovery of the image of Christ implanted in us, gives us a persuasion of our being separated and set apart for God, we have a Communion with him therein.
Thus then the Holy Ghost communicates unto us his own likenesse, which is also the image of the Father and the Sonne. We are changed into this image by the Lord the Spirit: