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Communion with God. in two sermons preached at Paul'sCommunion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's
Communion with God. in two sermons preached at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.
London: printed by Evan Tyler, 1655
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. Make use of each Person of the Trinity to each other for the enjoyment of Communion with Deity. Every person of the Trinity works both jointly and severally in the bringing of the soul unto God. The Father he effectually draws the soul to Christ, John 6.44. And he graciously accepts of that which is no way suitable to his infinite holiness. The Son as Mediator dischargeth all that is requisite for the reconciling of us unto the Father. The Holy Ghost doth immediately work the soul to all spiritual ⟨p. 41⟩good. Now then, do you learn to make use of every persons peculiar work.
7. Make use of each Person of the Trinity to each other for the enjoyment of Communion with Deity. Every person of the Trinity works both jointly and severally in the bringing of the soul unto God. The Father he effectually draws the soul to Christ, Iohn 6.44. And he gracioufly accepts of that which is no way suitable to his infinite holiness. The Son as Mediator dischargeth all that is requisite for the reconciling of us unto the Father. The Holy Ghost doth immediately work the soul to all spiritual ⟨p. 41⟩good. Now then, do you learn to make use of every persons peculiar work.
Can there be a more pleasing, a more profitable, a more honourable work, than to search how the Father draws to the Son, and promiseth to send the Holy Ghost? Yet it is the Son that engageth the Father, by the working of the Holy Ghost; and yet it is the Holy Ghost which worketh the heart to close with Christ, and thereby we have access unto the Father. How sweet is it to unriddle these mysteries of Grace! The very untying of these knots, and the picking out the kernels of these seeming contradictions, must needs be advantageous unto the soul.