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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
Part 3 › Chapter 8: Particular Directions for Communion with the Holy Ghost.
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Humbling our selves for our miscarriages in reference to him, is another part of our communion with him. That we §. 14 have grieved him, as to his Person, quenched him, as to the motion of his grace, or resisted him in his Ordinances, is to be mourned for, as hath been declared Let our Souls be humbled before him on this account. This one considerable Ingredient of Godly sorrow, and the thoughts of it, are as suitable to the affecting of our Hearts with humiliation, and indignation against sin, as any other whatever. I might proceed in the like considerations; as also make application of them to the particular effects of the Holy Ghost enumerated; but my design is only to point out the heads of things, and to leave them to the improvement of others.
Humbling our selves for our miscarriages in reference to him, is another part of our communion with him. That we §. 14 have grieved him, as to his Person, quenched him, as to the motion of his grace, or resisted him in his Ordinances, is to be mourned for, as hath been declared Let our Soules be humbled before him on this account. This one considerable Ingredient of Godly sorrow, and the thoughts of it, are as suitable to the affecting of our Hearts with humiliation, and indignation against sin, as any other whatever. I might proceed in the like considerations; as also make application of them to the particular effects of the Holy Ghost enumerated; but my designe is only to point out the heads of things, and to leave them to the improvement of others.
I shall shut up this whole discourse with some considerations, §. 15 of the sad estate and condition of men not interested in this promise of the Spirit, nor made partakers of his Consolation.
1. They have no true Consolation or comfort be their Estate & condition what it will. Are they under affliction or in trouble? They must bear their own burden; and how much to weak they are for it, if God be pleased to lay on his hand with more weight then ordinary, is easily known. Men may have stoutness of Spirit, and put on great Resolutions to wrestle with their troubles. But when this is merely from the natural spirit of a man,