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Of Communion With God
Of Communion With God, by John Owen
Contents:
Part 1: Of Communion with The Father
- Of Communion, File 2:
- Chapter 1: That the saints have communion with God - 1
John 1:3 considered to that purpose - Somewhat of the nature
of communion in general.
- Of Communion, File 3:
- Chapter 2. That the saints have this communion distinctly
with the Father, Son, and Spirit, 1 John 5: 7 opened to this
purpose; also, 1 Cor. 12: 4-6, Eph. 2: 18 - Father and Son
mentioned jointly in this communion; the Father solely, the Son
also, and the Holy Ghost singly - The saints' respective reward in
all worship to each manifested - Faith in the Father, John 5: 9,
10; and love towards him, 1 John 2: 15, Mal. 1: 6 - So in prayer
and praise - It is so likewise with the Son, John 14: 1 - Of our
communion with the Holy Ghost - The truth farther confirmed.
- Of Communion, File 4:
Chapter 3. Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints
have with the Father - Observations for the clearing of the whole
premised - Our peculiar communion with the Father is in
love - 1 John 4: 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 believers to hold communion with the Father in
love - His love received by faith - Returns of love to him - God's
love to us and ours to him - Wherein they agree - Wherein they
differ.
- Of Communion, File 5:
Chapter 4. Inferences on the former doctrine concerning communion
with the Father in love.
Part 2: Of Communion with The Son Jesus Christ:
- Of Communion, File 6:
- Chapter 1. Of the fellowship which the saints have with Jesus
Christ the 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.
- Of Communion, File 7:
- Chapter 2. What it is wherein we have peculiar fellowship with
the Lord Christ - This is in grace - This proved, John 1: 14,16,17;
2 Cor. 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, how white and ruddy - His fitness to
save, from the grace of union - His fulness to save - His
suitableness to endear - These considerations improved.
- Of Communion, File 8:
- Chapter 3. Of the way and manner whereby the saints hold communion
with the Lord Christ as to personal grace - The conjugal relation
between Christ and the saints, Cant. 2: 16, 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.
- Of Communion, File 9:
- Chapter 3, Digression 1. Some excellencies of Christ proposed
to consideration, to endear our hearts unto him - His description,
Cant. 5, opened.
- Of Communion, File 10:
- Digression 2, Part 1. 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 not discovered but in Christ only; love, mercy - Others not fully
but in him; as vindictive justice, patience, wisdom,
all-sufficiency - No property of God savingly known but in Christ - What
is required to a saving knowledge of the properties of God - No true
knowledge of ourselves but in Christ - Knowledge of ourselves, wherein
it consisteth - Knowledge of sin, how to be had in Christ; also of
righteousness and of judgement - The wisdom of walking with God hid in
Christ - What is required thereunto - Other pretenders to the title of
wisdom examined and rejected Christ alone exalted.
- Of Communion, File 11:
- Digression 2, Part 2
- Of Communion, File 12:
- Chapter 4. Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation in
respect of consequential affections - His delight in his saints first
insisted 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
to communicate their mind to him, giving them assistance, a way,
boldness, Rom. 8: 26, 27 - The saints delight in Christ; this
manifested Cant. 2: 7; 8: 6 - Cant. 3: 1-5, opened
- Of Communion, File 13:
- Chapter 5. Other consequential affections: - 1. On the part of
Christ - He values his saints - Evidences of that valuation: - (1.)
His incarnation; (2.) Exinanition, 2 Cor. 8: 9; Phil. 2: 6, 7; (3.)
Obedience as a servant; (4.) In his death. His valuation of them in
comparison of others. 2. Believers' estimation of Christ: - (1.)
They value him above all other things and persons; (2.) Above their
own lives; (3.) All spiritual excellencies. The sum of all on the part
of Christ - The sum on the part of believers. The third conjugal
affection - On the part of Christ, pity or compassion - Wherein
manifested - Suffering and supply, fruits of compassion - Several
ways whereby Christ relieves the saints under temptations - His
compassion in their afflictions. Chastity, the third conjugal affection
in the saints. The fourth - On the part of Christ, bounty; on the part
of the saints, duty.
- Of Communion, File 14:
- Chapter 6. Of communion with Christ in purchased grace - Purchased
grace considered in respect of its rise and fountain - The first rise
of it, in the obedience of Christ - Obedience properly ascribed to
Christ - 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 to the law of the Mediator - Of his actual obedience or
active righteousness - 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 made
thereby - A punishment; satisfaction thereby - The intercession of
Christ; with its influence into our acceptation with God.
- Of Communion, File 15:
- 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.
- Of Communion, File 16:
Chapter 8. How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their
acceptation with God - What is required on the part of Christ
hereunto; in his intention; in the declaration thereof - The sum of
our acceptation with God, wherein it consists - What is required on
the part of believers to this communion, and how they hold it, with
Christ - Some objections proposed to consideration, why the elect are
not accepted immediately on the undertaking and the death of
Christ - In what sense they are so - Christ a common or public
person - How he came to be so - The way of 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 new covenant - How the
saints, in particular, hold communion with Christ in this purchased
grace - They approve of this righteousness; the grounds
thereof - Reject their own; the grounds thereof - The commutation of
sin and righteousness between Christ and believers; some objections
answered.
- Of Communion, File 17:
- Chapter 9. Of communion with Christ in holiness - The several
acts ascribed unto the Lord Christ herein: 1. His intercession; 2.
Sending of the Spirit; 3. Bestows habitual grace - What that is, and
wherein it consists - This purchased by Christ; bestowed by him - Of
actual grace - How the saints hold communion with Christ in these
things; manifested in sundry particulars.
- Of Communion, File 18:
- Chapter 10. Of communion with Christ in privileges - Of adoption;
the nature of it, the consequences of it - Peculiar privileges
attending it; liberty, title, boldness, affliction - Communion with
Christ hereby.
Part 3: Of Communion with The Holy Ghost:
- Of Communion, File 19:
- Chapter 1. The foundation of our communion with the Holy ghost
(John 16: 1-7) opened at large - "Parakletos", a Comforter; who he
is - The Holy 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 to office - Things considerable in his procession as to office the
manner of his collation - He is given freely; sent authoritatively - The
sin against the Holy ghost, whence unpardonable - How we ask the Spirit
of the Father - To grieve the Spirit, what - Poured out - How the Holy
Ghost is received; by faith - Faith's acting in receiving the Holy
Ghost - His abode with us, how declared - How we may lose our comfort
whilst the Comforter abides with us.
- Of Communion, File 20:
- Chapter 2. Of the acting of the Holy Ghost in us, being bestowed
on us - He worketh effectually, distributeth, giveth.
- Of Communion, File 21:
- Chapter 3. Of the things wherein we have communion with the Holy
Ghost - He brings to remembrance the things spoken by Christ,
John 14: 26 - The manner how he does it - The Spirit glorifies Christ
in the hearts of believers, John 16: 14, sheds abroad the love of God
in them - The witness of the Spirit, what it is, Rom 8: l6 - The
sealing of the Spirit, Eph. 1: 13 - The Spirit, how an earnest; on
the part of God, on the part of the saints - Difference between the
earnest of the Spirit and tasting of the powers of the world to
come - Unction by the Spirit, Isa. 11: 2, 3 - The various teachings
of the Holy Ghost - How the Spirit of adoption and of supplication.
- Of Communion, File 22:
- Chapter 4. The general consequences in the hearts of believers
of the effects of the Holy Ghost before mentioned - Consolation;
its adjuncts, peace, joy - How it is wrought immediately, mediately.
- Of Communion, File 23:
- Chapter 5. Some observations and inferences from discourses
foregoing concerning the Spirit - The contempt of the whole
administration of the Spirit by some - The vain pretence of the Spirit
by others - The false spirit discovered.
- Of Communion, File 24:
- 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.
- Of Communion, File 25:
- Chapter 7. The general ways of the saints' acting in communion with
the Holy Ghost.
- Of Communion, File 26:
- Chapter 8. Particular directions for communion with the Holy
Chest. Before I name particular directions for our communion with the
I must premise some cautions, as far as the directions to be given,
concerning his worship.
- (End, Of Communion with God, by John Owen)
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