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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53713	Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing O778; ESTC R32197	289,173	326

I say they looke in the first place to the purifying vertue of the blood of Christ which is able to cleanse them from all their sinnes 1 Joh. 1. 7. Being the Spring from whence floweth all the purifying vertue which in the Issue will take away all their Spots and Staines make them holy and without blemish and in the end present them glorious unto himselfe Eph. 5. 26 27. This they dwell upon with thoughts of faith they roll it in their minds and spirits Here faith obtaines new life new vigor when a sence of vilenesse hath even overwhelmed it Here is a fountaine opened draw nigh and see its beauty purity efficacy Here is a foundation laid of that worke whose accomplishment we long for One moments Communion with Christ by faith herein is more effectuall to the purging of the soule to the increasing of Grace then the utmost selfe endeavours of a 1000 ages 2. § 11 They Eye the Blood of Christ as the Blood of Sprinkling Comeing to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant they come to the Blood of Sprinkling Heb. 12. 24. The eying of the blood of Christ as shed will not of its selfe take away Pollution There is not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a shedding of Blood without which there is no Remission Heb. 9. 22. but there is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sprinkling of blood without which there is no actuall purification This the Apostle largely describes Heb. 9. When Moses saith he had spoken every precept to the People according to the Law he tooke the blood of Calves and of Goats with water and scarlet wooll Hyssop sprinkled both the book and all the People saying this is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoyned unto you More over he sprinkled with blood both the Tabernacle all the Vessells of the Ministry and allmost all things are by the Law purged with blood It was therefore necessary that the patternes of the things in the Heavens should be purifyed with these but the Heavenly things themselves with better Sacrifices then these v. 19 20 21 22 23. He had formerly compared the Blood of Christ to the blood of Sacrifices as offered in respect of the impetration and the Purchase it made now he doth it unto that blood as sprinkled in respect of its Aplication unto purification and holinesse And he tells us how this sprinkling was performed it was by dipping Hyssop in the blood of the Sacrifice and so dashing it out upon the things and persons to be purifyed As the Institution also was with the Paschall Lamb Exod. 12. 12. Hence David in a sence of the pollution of sin prays that he may be purged with Hyssop Ps. 51. 7. For that this peculiarly respected the Uncleannesse and Defilement of sin is evident because there is no mention made in the Institution of any Sacrifice after that of the Lamb before mentioned of sprinkling blood with Hyssop but only in those which respected purification of uncleannesse As in the case of Leprosy Levit. 14. 6. and all other defilements Numb 19. 18. which latter indeed is not of blood but of the water of separation this also being eminently Typpicall of the blood of Christ which is the Fountaine for separation for Uncleannesse Zech. 13. 1. Now this branch of Hyssop wherein the blood of purification was prepared for the sprinkling of the uncleane is unto us the free promises of Christ. The cleasing vertue of the Blood of Christ lyes in the Promises as the blood of Sacrifices in the Hyssop ready to passe out unto them that draw nigh thereunto Therefore the Apostle argueth from receiving of the Promises unto Universall Holinesse and purity Having therefore these Promises Dearely Beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of flesh and Spirit perfecting Holinesse in the feare of the Lord 2 Cor. 7. 1. This then the Saints doe they eye the Blood of Christ as it is in the Promise ready to issue out upon the Soule for the purification thereof and thence is purging and cleansing vertue to be communicated unto them and by the blood of Christ are they to be purged from all their sinnes Joh. 1. 7. Thus farre as it were this Purifying blood thus prepared and made ready is at some distance to the soule Though it be shed to this purpose that it might purge cleanse and Sanctify though it be taken up with the bunch of Hyssop in the Promises yet the soul may not partake of it wherefore 3. § 12 They look upon him as in his own Spirit he is the only Dispenser of the Spirit and of all Grace of Sanctification and Holinesse They consider that upon his Intercession it is granted to him that he shall make effectuall all the fruits of his Purchase to the Sanctification the purifying and making glorious in Holinesse of his whole people They know that this is actually to be accomplished by the Spirit according to the innumerable Promises given to that Purpose He is to sprinkle that blood upon their soules He is to create the Holinesse in them that they long after He is to be himselfe in them a well of water springing up to everlasting life In this state they looke to Jesus here faith fixes its selfe in expectation of his giving out the Spirit for all these ends and purposes mixing the Promises with faith and so becoming actuall partaker of all this Grace This is their way this their Coumunion with Christ This is the life of Faith as to Grace and Holinesse Blessed is the soule that is exercised therein He shall be as a tree planted by the waters that spreadeth forth her rootes by the River and shall not see when heat cometh but her leafe shall be green and shall not be carefull in the yeare of drought neither shall cease from yeilding fruit Jerem 17. 18. Convinced persons who know not Christ nor the fellowship of his sufferings would spin an holinesse out of their own bowells they would worke it out in their own strength They begin it with tyring endeavours and follow it with Vows Dutys Resolutions Ingagements sweating at it all the day long Thus they continue for a season their Hypocrisy for the most part ending in Apostacy The Saints of God do in the very entrance of their walking with him reckon upon it that they have a Threefold want 1. Of the Spirit of Holinesse to dwell in them 2. Of an Habit of Holinesse to be infused into them 3. Of Actuall Assistance to work all their works for them and that if these should continue to be wanting they can never with all their might power and endeavours performe any one act of Holinesse before the Lord. They know that of themselves they have no sufficiency that without Christ they can doe nothing therefore they looke to him who is intrusted with a fullnesse of all these in their behalfe and thereupon by Faith derive from him an Increase of that whereof