A53713:972
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.
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, Dan. 9. as to his furnishment for it, concurs hereunto. Christ is said to be anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, Heb. 1. 9. which is the same with that of Joh. 3. 34. God giveth him not the spirit by measure. We who have the Spirit by measure, are anointed with the oil of gladness: Christ hath the fullness of the Spirit, whence our measure is communicated; so he is anointed above us; that in all things he may have the preeminence. How Christ was anointed with the Spirit to his three fold Office, of King, Priest, and Prophet, how by virtue of an unction with the same Spirit dwelling in him, and us, we become to be interested in these offices of his, and are made also Kings, Priests, and Prophets to God, is known, and would be matter of a long discourse to handle, and my design is only to communicate the things treated of.
7. The Spirit anoynts Believers. We are anoynted by the Spirit, 2 Cor. §. 23 1. 21. we have an unction from the holy one, and we know all things, 1 Ioh. 2. 20. and v. 27. I cannot intend to run this expression up into its rise and originall. Also I have done it else-where. The use of unctions in the Judaicall Church, the meaning and intendment of the Types attended therewith. The Offices that men were consecrated unto thereby, are at the bottome of this expression; neerer 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 Annoynting,