A53713:103
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.
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.
- m1 Sam. 15. 29 Isa. 46. 70. Jerem. 37. 3. Mal. 1. 6. Jam. 1. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 19.
1. In respect of its Fruits; It is (as I said) a fruitful love, a §. 26 love of Bounty. In reference unto those fruits, it may sometimes be greater, sometimes less: Its communications are various. Who among the Saints, finds it not? What Life, what Light, what strength sometimes? and again how dead, how dark, how weak, as God is pleased to let out, or to restrain the fruits of his Love? All the Graces of the spirit in us, all sanctified enjoyments whatever, are fruits of his love. How variously these are dispensed, how differently at sundry seasons, to the same Persons, experience will abundantly testify.