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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.
3. They differ in this also. The Love of God is like himself, equal, constant, not capable of Augmentation, or Diminution: Our love §. 24 is like our selves, unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His like the Sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose: Ours, as the Moon, hath its Enlargements and streightnings.
3. They differ in this also. The Love of God is like himselfe, equall, constant, not capable of Augmentation, or Diminution: Our love §. 24 is like our selves, unequall, increasing, waining, growing, declining. His like the Sunne, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose: Ours, as the Moon, hath its Enlargements and streightnings.
1. The Love of the Father is Equal &c. mwhom he loves he loves unto the end, and he loves, them always alike. The §. 25 strength of Israel is not a man that he should repent. On whom he fixes his love, it is immutable: it doth not grow to Eternity, it is not diminished at any time. It is an eternal love, that had no beginning; that shall have no ending; that cannot be heightened by any act of ours, that cannot be lessened by any thing in us; I say in it self it is thus, otherwise in a two fold regard it may admit of change.
1. The Love of the Father is Equall &c. mwhom he loves he loves unto the end, and he loves, them always alike. The §. 25 strength of Israel is not a man that he should repent. On whom he fixes his love, it is immutable: it doth not grow to Eternity, it is not diminished at any time. It is an eternall love, that had no beginning; that shall have no ending; that cannot be heightned by any act of ours, that cannot be lessened by any thing in us; I say in it self it is thus, otherwise in a two fold regard it may admit of chang.