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Of Communion with GodJohn OwenContentsPart 1. Of Communion with each Person distinctly - Of Communion withthe Father Chapter 1. That the saints have communion with God - 1 John 1: 3considered to that purpose - Somewhat of the nature of communion ingeneral.Chapter 2. That the saints have this communion distinctly with theFather, Son, and Spirit, 1 John 5: 7 opened to this purpose; also, 1Cor. 12: 4-6, Eph. 2: 18 - Father and Son mentioned jointly in thiscommunion; the Father solely, the Son also, and the Holy Ghost singly- The saints' respective reward in all worship to each personmanifested - Faith in the Father, John 5: 9, 10; and love towardshim, 1 John 2: 15, Mal. 1: 6 - So in prayer and praise - It is solikewise with the Son, John 14: 1 - Of our communion with the HolyGhost - The truth farther confirmed.Chapter 3. Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saintshave with the Father - Observations for the clearing of the wholepremised - Our peculiar communion with the Father is in love - 1 John4: 7, 8; 2 Cor. 13: 14; John 16: 26, 27; Rom. 5: 5; John 3: 16, 14:23; Tit. 3: 4, opened to this purpose - What is required of believersto hold communion with the Father in love - His love received byfaith - Returns of love to him - God's love to us and ours to him -Wherein they agree - Wherein they differ.Chapter 4. Inferences on the former doctrine concerning communionwith the Father in love.Part 2. Of Communion with the Son Jesus ChristChapter 1. Of the fellowship which the saints have with Jesus Christthe Son of God - That they have such a fellowship proved, 1 Cor. 1:9; Rev. 3: 20; Cant. 2: 1-7 opened; also Prov. 9: 1-5.Chapter 2. What it is wherein we have peculiar fellowship with theLord Christ - This is in grace - This proved, John 1: 14,16,17; 2Cor. 13: 14; 2 Thess. 3: 17, 18 - Grace of various acceptations -Personal grace in Christ proposed to consideration - The grace of Christ as Mediator intended, Ps. 45: 2 - Cant. 5: 10, Christ, howwhite and ruddy - His fitness to save, from the grace of union - Hisfulness to save - His suitableness to endear - These considerationsimproved.Chapter 3. Of the way and manner whereby the saints hold communionwith the Lord Christ as to personal grace - The conjugal relationbetween Christ and the saints, Cant. 2: 16 ù Isa. 54: 5, etc.; Cant.3: 11, opened - The way of communion in conjugal relation, Hos. 3: 3;Cant. 1: 15 - On the part of Christ - On the part of the saints.Digression 1. Some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration,to endear our hearts unto him - His description, Cant. 5, opened.Digression 2. All solid wisdom laid up in Christ - True wisdom,wherein it consists - Knowledge of God, in Christ only to be obtained- What of God may be known by his works - Some properties of God notdiscovered but in Christ only; love, mercy - Others not fully but inhim; as vindictive justice, patience, wisdom, all-sufficiency - Noproperty of God savingly known but in Christ - What is required to asaving knowledge of the properties of God - No true knowledge of ourselves but in Christ - Knowledge of ourselves, wherein itconsisteth - Knowledge of sin, how to be had in Christ; also of righteousness and of judgement - The wisdom of walking with God hidin Christ - What is required thereunto - Other pretenders to the
 
title of wisdom examined and rejected Christ alone exalted.Chapter 4. Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation in respectof consequential affections - His delight in his saints firstinsisted on, Isa. 62: 5; Cant. 3: 11 Prov. 8: 21 - Instance of Christ's delight in believers - He reveals his whole heart to them,John 15: 14, 16; himself, 1 John 14: 21; his kingdom; enables them tocommunicate their mind to him, giving them assistance, a way,boldness, Rom. 8: 26, 27 - The saints delight in Christ; thismanifested Cant. 2: 7; 8: 6 - Cant. 3: 1-5, opened - Their delight inhis servants and ordinances of worship for his sake.Chapter 5. Other consequential affections: - 1. On the part of Christ- He values his saints - Evidences of that valuation: - (1.) Hisincarnation; (2.) Exinanition, 2 Cor. 8: 9; Phil. 2: 6, 7; (3.)Obedience as a servant; (4.) In his death. His valuation of them incomparison of others. 2. Believers' estimation of Christ: - (1.) Theyvalue him above all other things and persons; (2.) Above their ownlives; (3.) All spiritual excellencies. The sum of all on the part of Christ - The sum on the part of believers. The third conjugalaffection - On the part of Christ, pity or compassion - Whereinmanifested - Suffering and supply, fruits of compassion - Severalways whereby Christ relieves the saints under temptations - Hiscompassion in their afflictions. Chastity, the third conjugalaffection in the saints. The fourth - On the part of Christ, bounty;on the part of the saints, duty.Chapter 6. Of communion with Christ in purchased grace - Purchasedgrace considered in respect of its rise and fountain - The first riseof it, in the obedience of Christ - Obedience properly ascribed toChrist - Two ways considered: what it was, and wherein it did consist- Of his obedience to the law in general - Of the law of the Mediator - His habitual righteousness, how necessary; as also his obedience tothe law of the Mediator - Of his actual obedience or activerighteousness - All Christ's obedience performed as he was Mediator -His active obedience for us - This proved at large, Gal. 4: 4, 5;Rom. 5: 19; Phil. 3: 10; Zech. 3: 3-5 - One objection removed -Considerations of Christ's active righteousness closed - Of the death of Christ, and its influence into our acceptation with God- A price; redemption, what it is - A sacrifice; atonement madethereby - A punishment; satisfaction thereby - The intercession of Christ; with its influence into our acceptation with God.Chapter 7. The nature of purchased grace; referred to three heads: -1. Of our acceptation with God; two parts of it. 2. Of the grace of sanctification; the several parts of it.Chapter 8. How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God - What is required on the part of Christhereunto; in his intention; in the declaration thereof - The sum of our acceptation with God, wherein it consists - What is required onthe part of believers to this communion, and how they hold it, withChrist - Some objections proposed to consideration, why the elect arenot accepted immediately on the undertaking and the death of Christ -In what sense they are so - Christ a common or public person - How hecame to be so - The wayof our acceptation with God on that account - The second objection -The necessity of our obedience stated, Eph. 2: 8-10 - The grounds,causes, and ends of it manifested - Its proper place in the newcovenant - How the saints, in particular, hold communion with Christin this purchased grace - They approve of this righteousness; thegrounds thereof - Reject their own; the grounds thereof - Thecommutation of sin and righteousness between Christ and believers;some objections answered.Chapter 9. Of communion with Christ in holiness - The several acts
 
ascribed unto the Lord Christ herein: 1. His intercession; 2. Sendingof the Spirit; 3. Bestows habitual grace - What that is, and whereinit consists - This purchased by Christ; bestowed by him - Of actualgrace - How the saints hold communion with Christ in these things;manifested in sundry particulars.Chapter 10. Of communion with Christ in privileges - Of adoption; thenature of it, the consequences of it - Peculiar privileges attendingit; liberty, title, boldness, affliction - Communion with Christhereby.Part 3. Of Communion with the Holy Ghost.Chapter 1. The foundation of our communion with the Holy ghost (John16: 1-7) opened at large - "Parakletos", a Comforter; who he is - TheHoly Ghost; his own will in his coming to us; sent also by Christ -The Spirit sent as a sanctifier and as a comforter - The adjuncts of his mission considered - The foundation of his mission, John 15: 26 -His procession from the Father twofold; as to personality, or tooffice - Things considerable in his procession as to office themanner of his collation - He is given freely; sent authoritatively -The sin against the Holy ghost, whence unpardonable - How we ask theSpirit of the Father - To grieve the Spirit, what - Poured out - Howthe Holy Ghost is received; by faith - Faith's acting in receivingthe Holy Ghost - His abode with us, how declared - How we may loseour comfort whilst the Comforter abides with us.Chapter 2. Of the acting of the Holy Ghost in us, being bestowed onus - He worketh effectually, distributeth, giveth.Chapter 3. Of the things wherein we have communion with the HolyGhost - He brings to remembrance the things spoken by Christ, John14: 26 - The manner how he does it - The Spirit glorifies Christ inthe hearts of believers, John 16: 14, sheds abroad the love of God inthem - The witness of the Spirit, what it is, Rom 8: l6 - The sealingof the Spirit, Eph. 1: 13 - The Spirit, how an earnest; on the partof God, on the part of the saints - Difference between the earnest of the Spirit and tasting of the powers of the world to come - Unctionby the Spirit, Isa. 11: 2, 3 - The various teachings of the HolyGhost - How the Spirit of adoption and of supplication.Chapter 4. The general consequences in the hearts of believers of theeffects of the Holy Ghost before mentioned - Consolation; itsadjuncts, peace, joy - How it is wrought immediately, mediately.Chapter 5. Some observations and inferences from discourses foregoingconcerning the Spirit - The contempt of the whole administration of the Spirit by some - The vain pretence of the Spirit by others - Thefalse spirit discovered.Chapter 6. Of particular communion with the Holy Ghost - Of preparation thereunto - Valuation of the benefits we receive by him -What it is he comforts, us, in and against; wherewith; how.Chapter 7. The general ways of the saints' acting in communion withthe Holy Ghost.Chapter 8. Particular directions for communion with the Holy Chest. Part 1. Of Communion with each Person distinctly - Of Communion withthe Father 
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