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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.
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: 2 Cor. 3. 18. And herein he brings us into fellowship with himselfe. Our likenesse to him, gives us boldnesse with him: His worke 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 perswasion of our being separated and set apart for God, we have a Communion with him therein.
6. He is an Earnest unto us 2 Cor. 1. 22. He hath given the §. 14: earnest of the Spirit in our hearts: chap. 5. 5. who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit: as also Ephes. 1. 13, 14. Ye are sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. In the two former places we are said to have the earnest of the Spirit, in the latter the Spirit is said to be our earnest, of the Spirit, then in the first place is as we say Genitivus materiae; denoting not the cause but the thing it self; not the Author of the earnest, but the matter of it. The Spirit is our Earnest, as in the last place is expressed. The consideration of what is meant by the Spirit here, & what is meant by an Earnest will give some insight in to this privilege, which we receive by the Comforter.