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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.
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.
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,
1. They have no true Consolation or comfort be their Estate & condition what it will. Are they under affliction or in trouble? They must beare 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 stoutnesse of Spirit, and put on great Resolutions to wrestle with their troubles. But when this is meerly from the naturall spirit of a man,
1. For the most part it is but an outside. It is done with respect to others, that they may not appear low spirited, or dejected. Their hearts are eaten up and devoured with troubles and anxiety of mind. Their thoughts are perplexed, and they are still striving, but never come to a conquest, Every new trouble every little alteration in their trials, puts them to new vexation. It is an ungrounded resolution that bears them up and they are easily shaken.
1. For the most part it is but an outside. It is done with respect to others, that they may not appeare low spirited, or dejected. Their hearts are eaten up and devoured with troubles and anxiety of minde. Their thoughts are perplexed, and they are still striving, but never come to a conquest, Every new trouble every little alteration in their trialls, puts them to new vexation. It is an ungrounded resolution that beares them up and they are easily shaken.