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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.
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.
1. In respect of its Fruits; It is (as I said) a fruitfull love, a §. 26 love of Bounty. In reference unto those fruits, it may sometimes be greater, sometimes lesse: Its communications are various. Who among the Saints, finds it not? What Life, what Light, what strength sometimes? and againe how dead, how dark, how weake, as God is pleased to let out, or to restraine 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.
2. In respect of its discoveries and manifestations. He sheds abroad §. 27 his Love in our Hearts by the Holy Ghost: Rom: 5 v. 5. gives us a sense of it; manifests it unto us. Now this is nvarious and changeable, sometimes more, sometimes less: Now he shines, anon hides his face, as it may be for our profit. Our Father will not always chide, lest we be cast down; he doth not always smile, lest we be full and neglect him: but yet still his Love in its self is the same. When for a little moment he hides Isa. ⟨p. 30⟩his face, yet he gathers us, with everlasting kindness.
2. In respect of its discoveries and manifestations. He sheds abroad §. 27 his Love in our Hearts by the Holy Ghost: Rom: 5 v. 5. gives us a sense of it; manifests it unto us. Now this is