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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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I shall only therefore fix on one place, where the Communications of the spirit in this unction of Christ are enumerated, of §. 24 which in our Measure from him, and with him, by this unction, we are made partakers: and that is Isai. 11. 2, 3. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord, &c. Many of the endowments of Christ, from the Spirit wherewith he was abundantly anointed, are here recounted. ⟨p. 287⟩Principally those of Wisdom, Counsel, and Understanding, are insisted on: on the Account whereof, all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge are said to be in him, Col. 2. 3. and though this be but some part of the furniture of Jesus Christ, for the discharge of his Office, yet it is such, as where our anointing to the same purpose is mentioned, it is said peculiarly on the effecting of such Qualifications as these; so John 2. 22, and 27. the work of the anointing, is to teach us. The Spirit therein, is a Spirit of Wisdom and understanding of Counsel, Knowledge and quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. So was the great promise of the Comforter, that he should teach us, Joh. 14. 26. that he should guide us into all truth; Chap. 16. 13. This of teaching us the mind and will of God, in the manner wherein we are taught it by the Spirit, our Comforter, is an eminent part of our unction by him, which only I shall instance in. Give me leave to say there is a threefold teaching by the spirit.
I shall only therefore fix on one place, where the Communications of the spirit in this unction of Christ are enumerated, of §. 24 which in our Measure from him, and with him, by this unction, we are made partakers: and that is Isai. 11. 2, 3. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdome and understanding, the spirit of councell and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lord, &c. Many of the endowments of Christ, from the Spirit wherewith he was abundantly anointed, are here recounted.