Communion with God
With the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
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Preface
About this book
John Owen’s great treatise (1657) on the believer’s fellowship with each person of the Trinity. In three parts he shows how the saints have communion with the Father, chiefly in his love; with the Son, in his personal grace, purchased grace, holiness and the privileges of adoption; and with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, in all he brings to the soul. Dense and deeply warm, it is the Puritan classic on enjoying God, with two long digressions on the excellencies and wisdom of Christ.
That the saints have communion with God — 1 John i. 3 considered to that purpose — Somewhat of the nature of communion in general. In the First Epistle of John, chap. i., verse 3, the apostle assures them to whom he wrote that the fellowship of believers “is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:” and this he doth with such an…
Contents
- 1 Preface 2 min
- 2 To the Reader 3 min
- 3 That the saints have communion with God 9 min
- 4 That this communion is distinctly with the Father, Son, and Spirit 20 min
- 5 Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father 35 min
- 6 Inferences on communion with the Father in love 21 min
- 7 Of the fellowship which the saints have with Jesus Christ the Son of God 16 min
- 8 What it is wherein we have peculiar fellowship with the Lord Christ 18 min
- 9 Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace 14 min
- 10 Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration 49 min
- 11 Digression II: all solid wisdom laid up in Christ 97 min
- 12 Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation, in its consequential affections 39 min
- 13 Other consequential affections 53 min
- 14 Of communion with Christ in purchased grace 37 min
- 15 The nature of purchased grace 11 min
- 16 How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God 64 min
- 17 Of communion with Christ in holiness 24 min
- 18 Of communion with Christ in privileges 39 min
- 19 The foundation of our communion with the Holy Ghost 30 min
- 20 Of the actings of the Holy Ghost in us 5 min
- 21 Of the things wherein we have communion with the Holy Ghost 37 min
- 22 The general consequences of the Holy Ghost's work in believers 10 min
- 23 Observations and inferences concerning the Spirit 13 min
- 24 Of particular communion with the Holy Ghost 13 min
- 25 The general ways of the saints' acting in communion with the Holy Ghost 10 min
- 26 Particular directions for communion with the Holy Ghost 17 min
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- @book{owen1657communion, author = {Owen, John}, title = {{Communion with God}}, year = {1657}, publisher = {Ochorus}, url = {https://ochorus.com/books/communion-with-god/} }