A53713:1051
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.
First, That the Holy Ghost is affected towards us, as one that is loving, careful, tender, concerned in our good, and welldoing, and therefore upon our miscarriages is said to be grieved. As a good friend of a kind, and loving nature is apt to be so on the miscarriage of him whom he doth affect. And this is that we are principally to regard in this caution as the ground and foundation of it; the Love, Kindness, and tenderness of the Holy Ghost unto us. Grieve him not.
First, That the Holy Ghost is affected towards us, as one that is loving, carefull, tender, concerned in our good, and welldoing, and therefore upon our miscarriages is said to be grieved. As a good friend of a kind, and loving nature is apt to be so on the miscarriage of him whom he doth affect. And this is that we are principally to regard in this caution as the ground and foundation of it; the Love, Kindnesse, and tendernesse of the Holy Ghost unto us. Grieve him not.
Secondly, That we may do those things, that are proper to grieve him, though he be not passively grieved; our sin being no less therein, then if he were grieved as we are. Now how this is done, how the Spirit is grieved, the Apostle declareth in the contexture of that discourse, verses 21, 22, 23, 24. He presseth to a progress in Sanctification, and all the fruits of Regeneration vers. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. He dehorts from sundry particular evils, that were contrary thereto, and then gives the general enforcement of the one and the other; and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God; that is by coming short of that universal Sanctification, which our planting into Christ doth require. The positive duty included in this caution, of not grieving the holy Spirit is this; That we pursue universal Holiness with regard unto, and upon the account of the love, kindness, and tenderness of the Holy Ghost. This is the foundation of our Communion, we have in general. When the soul considers the love, kindness and tenderness of the Holy Ghost unto him, when he considers all the fruits and acts of his love and goodwill towards him, and on that account, and under that consideration, ⟨p. 310⟩