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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.
To raise up our hearts to this frame, and fit us for the duty §. 2 intended, let us consider these three things.
1. First, What it is he comforts us against. 2. Secondly, Wherewith he Comforts us. 3. Thirdly, The principle of all his actings, and operations in us for our consolation.
1. There are three things in the whole course of our pilgrimage, that the consolations of the Holy Ghost are useful and necessary in
1. There are three things in the whole course of our pilgrimage, that the consolations of the Holy Ghost are usefull and necessary in
1. First. In our Afflictions. Affliction is part of the provision that God hath made in his house for his Children, Heb. 12. 5, 6. ⟨p. 302⟩The great variety of its causes, means, uses, and effects, is generally known. There is a measure of them appointed for every one. To be wholly without them is a temptation, and so in some measure an Affliction. That which I am to speak unto is, that in all our afflictions, we need the consolations of the Holy Ghost. It is the nature of man to relieve himself, when he is entangled, by all ways and means. According as mens natural spirits are, so do they manage themselves under pressures. The spirit of a man will bear his infirmity; at least it will struggle with it.