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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.
We have Adoption also by the Spirit, hence he is called the Spirit of Adoption: that is either, he who is given to Adopted ones, §. 26 to secure them of it, to beget in their hearts a sense and Persuasion of the Fathers Adopting Love; or else to give them the privilege it self, as is intimated Joh. 1. 12. Neither is that opposite hereunto which we have, Gal. 4, 6. for God may send the spirit of supplication into our hearts, because we are Sons, and ⟨p. 289⟩yet Adopted by his spirit. But of this elsewhere.
We have Adoption also by the Spirit, hence he is called the Spirit of Adoption: that is either, he who is given to Adopted ones, §. 26 to secure them of it, to beget in their hearts a sense and Perswasion of the Fathers Adopting Love; or else to give them the priviledge it selfe, as is intimated Joh. 1. 12. Neither is that opposite hereunto which we have, Gal. 4, 6. for God may send the spirit of supplication into our hearts, because we are Sons, and ⟨p. 289⟩yet Adopted by his spirit. But of this elsewhere.
He is also called the Spirit of Supplication, under which notion he is promised, Zach. 12. 10. and how he affects that in us, is §. 27 declared, Rom. 8. 26. 27. and Gal: 4. 6. and we are thence said to pray in the Holy Ghost. Our prayers may be considered.