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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.
2. God doth it to this purpose, to assure us and secure us of the inheritance; having given us so many securities without us, his Word, Promises, Covenant, Oath, the Revelation and discovery of his faithfulness, and immutability in them all: he is pleased also graciously to give us one within us; (Isa. 59. 21.) 1that we may have all the security, we are capable of: What can more be done? He hath given us of the Holy Spirit; in him the first fruits of Glory, the utmost pledge of his Love; the Earnest of all.
2. God doth it to this purpose, to assure us and secure us of the inheritance; having given us so many securityes without us, his Word, Promises, Covenant, Oath, the Revelation and discovery of his faithfullnesse, and immutability in them all: he is pleased also graciously to give us one within us; (Isa. 59. 21.) 1that we may have all the security, we are capable of: What can more be done? He hath given us of the Holy Spirit; in him the first fruits of Glory, the utmost pledge of his Love; the Earnest of all.
2. On the part of Believers, He is an earnest, in that he gives them an Acquaintance with, 1. The love of God; their Acceptation §. 20 with him makes known to them their favour in his sight: that he is their Father and will deal with them as with children; and consequently that the inheritance shall be theirs. He sends his Spirit into our hearts crying ba Father.