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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 › Chapter 4: Inferences on the Former Doctrine concerning Communion with the Father in Love.
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. Whose love it is? It is the Love of him who is in himself All-sufficient, infinitely satiated with himself and his own Glorious §. 4 Excellencies and Perfections. Who hath no need to go forth with his love unto others, nor to seek an Object of it without himself. There might He rest with delight and Complacency to Eternity. He is sufficient unto his own love. He had his Son also, 1his Eternal* Wisdom to rejoice and delight himself in from all Eternity: Prov. 8. 30. This might take up and satiate the whole delight of the Father: But he will love his Saints also. And it is such a love, as wherein he seeks not his own Satisfaction only, but our good therein also. The love of a God, the love of a Father, whose proper outgoings are kindness and Bounty.
1. Whose love it is? It is the Love of him who is in himself Alsufficient, infinitely satiated with himselfe and his own Glorious §. 4 Excellencyes and Perfections. Who hath no need to goe forth with his love unto others, nor to seek an Object of it without himselfe. There might He rest with delight and Complacency to Eternity. He is sufficient unto his own love. He had his Sonne also, 1his Eternall* Wisedome to rejoyce and delight himselfe in from all Eternity: Prov. 8. 30. This might take up and satiate the whole delight of the Father: But he will love his Saints also. And it is such a love, as wherein he seeks not his own Satisfaction only, but our good therein also. The love of a God, the love of a Father, whose proper outgoings are kindnesse and Bounty.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] optime in Dei filium quadrat patris delicias. Mercer in loc.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 optime in Dei filium quadrat patris delicias. Mercer in loc.