The Works of John Owen (Volume 10) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath of the riches of his grace, recovered us from a state of enmity, into a condition of communion and fellowship with himself, that both he that writes, and they that read the words of his mercy, may have such a taste of his sweetness and excellencies therein, as to be stirred up to a farther longing after the fulness of his salvation, and the eternal fruition of him in glory. CHAP. II. That the saints have this communion distinctly with the Father, Son, and Spirit. 1 John v. 7. opened to this purpose. Also, 1 Cor. xii. 4?6. Epb. ii. 18. Fattier and Son mentioned jointly in tliis communion. The Father solely: the Son also and the Holy Ghost singly. The saints respective regard in all worship to each person manifested. Faith in the Father; John v. 9, 10. and love towards him. 1 John ii. 15. Mai. i. 6. So is prayer and praise. It is so likewise with the Son; John xiv. 1. Of our communion with the Holy Ghost. The truth farther confirmed. That the saints have communion with God; and what communion in general is, was declared in the first chapter. The manner how this communion is carried on, and the matter wherein it doth consist, comes next under consideration. For the first, in respect of the distinct persons of the Godhead, with whom they have this fellowship, it is either distinct and peculiar, or else, obtained and exercised jointly and in common. That the saints have distinct communion with the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit (that is, distinctly with the Father, and distinctly with the Son, and distinctly with the Holy Spirit), and in what the peculiar appropiation of this distinct communion unto the several persons, doth consist, must in the first place be made manifest." 1 John v. 7. the apostle tells us, ' there are three ...