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This being so earnestly and directly asserted by the apostle, we may boldly
follow him with our affirmation, — namely, â€oeThat the saints of God have
communion with him.â€ı And a holy and spiritual communion it is, as shall be
declared. How this is spoken distinctly in reference to the Father and the
Son, must afterward be fully opened and carried on.
By nature, since the entrance of sin, no man hath any communion with God. He
is light, [4] we darkness; and what communion hath light with darkness? He
is life, we are dead, — he is love, and we are enmity; and what agreement
can there be between us? Men in such a condition have neither Christ, [5]
nor hope, nor God in the world, Eph. ii. 12; â€oebeing alienated from the life
of God through the ignorance that is in them,â€ı chap. iv. 18. Now, two cannot
walk together, unless they be agreed, Amos iii. 3. Whilst there is this
distance between God and man, there is no walking together for them in any
fellowship or communion. Our first interest in God was so lost by sin, [6]
as that there was left unto us (in ourselves) no possibility of a recovery.
As we had deprived ourselves of all power for a returnal, so God had not
revealed any way of access unto himself; or that he could, under any
consideration, be approached unto by sinners in peace. Not any work that God
had made, not any attribute that he had revealed, could give the least light
into such a dispensation.