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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
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2. Suppose that by the powers of the world to come the Glory of Heaven is intended; there is a wide difference between taking a vanishing taste of it our selves, and receiving an abiding earnest from God: To take a taste of the things of Heaven, and to ⟨p. 286⟩have them assured of God, as from his Love differ greatly. An Hypocrite may have his thoughts raised to a great deal of Joy and contentment in the consideration of the good things of the Kingdom of God for a season, considering the things in themselves, but the Spirit as he is an Earnest gives us a pledge of them as provided for us in the Love of God and purchase of his Son Jesus Christ. This by the way.
2. Suppose that by the powers of the world to come the Glory of Heaven is intended; there is a wide difference between taking a vanishing tast of it our selves, and receiving an abiding earnest from God: To take a tast of the things of Heaven, and to ⟨p. 286⟩have them assured of God, as from his Love differ greatly. An Hypocrite may have his thoughts raysed to a great deale of Joy and contentment in the consideration of the good things of the Kingdome of God for a season, considering the things in themselves, but the Spirit as he is an Earnest gives us a pleadge of them as provided for us in the Love of God and purchase of his Sonne Jesus Christ. This by the way.
7. The Spirit anoints Believers. We are anointed by the Spirit, 2 Cor. §. 23 1. 21. we have an unction from the holy one, and we know all things, 1 Joh. 2. 20. and v. 27. I cannot intend to run this expression up into its rise and original. Also I have done it else-where. The use of unctions in the Judaical Church, the meaning and intendment of the Types attended therewith. The Offices that men were consecrated unto thereby, are at the bottom of this expression; nearer the Unction of Jesus Christ, from whence he is called Messiah, and the Christ, the whole performance of his office of Mediatorship, being called also his Anointing,