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Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...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 ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
From what hath bin discoursed we may also try the spirits that are §. 5 gone abroad in the world; & which have been exercising themselves at several seasons, ever since the Ascension of Christ. The iniquity of the generation that is past, & passing away, lay in open cursed opposition to the holy Ghost. God hath been above them wherein they behaved themselves presumptuously. Satan, whose design, as he is God of this world, is to be uppermost, not to dwell wholly in any form cast down by the providence of God, hath now tran formed himself into an Angel of light, and he will pretend the Spirit also, and only. But there are seducing Spirits. 1 Tim. 4. 1. And we have a command not to believe every Spirit, but try the Spirits 1 Joh. 4. 16. And the reason added, is, because many false Spirits are gone abroad in the world, that is, men pretending to the Revelation of new Doctrines by the Spirit, whose deceits in the first Church Paul into mateth, 2 Thess. 2. 2. Calling on men not to be shaken in mind by Spirit. The truth is the Spirits of these days are so gross, that a man of a very easy discerning, may find them out: & yet their delusion so strong that not a few are deceived. This is one thing that lies evident to every eye; That according to his wonted course, Satan with his delusions is run into an extreme to his former actings.
Frō what hath bin discoursed we may also try the spirits that are §. 5 gone abroad in the world; & which have been exercising themselves at severall seasons, ever since the Ascention of Christ. The iniquity of the generation that is past, & passing away, lay in open cursed opposition to the holy Ghost. God hath been above them wherein they behaved themselves presumptiously. Satan, whose designe, as he is God of this world, is to be uppermost, not to dwell wholly in any forme cast down by the providence of God, hath now tran formed himselfe into an Angell of light, and he will pretend the Spirit also, and only. But there are seducing Spirits. 1 Tim. 4. 1. And we have a command not to believe every Spirit, but try the Spirits 1 Joh. 4. 16. And the reason added, is, because many false Spirits are gone abroad in the world, that is, men pretending to the Revelation of new Doctrines by the Spirit, whose deceipts in the first Church Paul into mateth,