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CHAP. XLVIII. The blessedness of communion with God.

Now we come to the fourth thing, Communion with God, and this is more then the other three things. Union is the ground of communion; communion is that which riseth from both parts being united, and the Saints shall have a glorious communion with God and the Trinity; in this life there is a communion that the Scripture speaks of, that we have with God the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit, 1 John 1. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ; and in 1 Cor. 13. 14. The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you, says the Apostle; so that there is a fellowship with the Father and the Son, and communion with the Holy Ghost; but certainly, it shall be another manner of communion that the Saints shall have with God in the world to come. Now this communion, it stands either in regard of the work of God, upon and towards the Saints, or the work of the Saints upon and towards God; for communion is on both sides, and that in these four things: First, in the delight they have one in another. Secondly, in wishing all good to one another. Thirdly, in the communication of themselves one to another. Fourthly, in the blessed familiar converse that they have one with another.

NOw we come to the fourth thing, Communion with God, and this is more then the other three things. Union is the ground of communion; communion is that which riseth from both parts being united, and the Saints shall have a glorious communion with God and the Trinity; in this life there is a communion that the Scripture speaks of, that we have with God the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit, 1 John 1. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ; and in 1 Cor. 13. 14. The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you, says the Apostle; so that there is a fellowship with the Father and the Son, and communion with the Holy Ghost; but certainly, it shall be another maner of communion that the Saints shall have with God in the world to come. Now this communion, it stands either in regard of the work of God, upon and towards the Saints, or the work of the Saints upon and towards God; for communion is on both sides, and that in these four things: First, in the delight they have one in another. Secondly, in wishing all good to one another. Thirdly, in the communication of themselves one to another. Fourthly, in the blessed familiar converse that they have one with another.