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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. Eternal. It was fixed on us before the §. 5 dFoundation of the World: before we were, or had done the least good; then were his thoughts upon us, then was his delight in us. Then did the Son rejoice in the thoughts of fulfilling his Fathers delight in him: Prov. 8. 30. Yea the Delight of the Father in the Son there mentioned, is not so much his absolute delight in him, as the express image of his Person, and the brightness of his Glory, wherein he might behold all his own Excellencies and perfections; but with respect, unto his love, and his delight in the Sons of men. So the order of the words require us to understand it: I was daily his Delight—and My delights were with the Sons of Men. That is, in the thoughts of kindness and Redemption for them: and in that respect also, was he his Fathers delight. It was from Eternity that he laid in his own bosom a design ⟨p. 33⟩or our happiness. The very thoughts of this, is enough to make all that is within us, like the babe in the womb of Elizabeth, to leap for joy. A sense of it cannot but prostrate our souls to the lowest abasement of an humble holy Reverence, and make us rejoice before him with trembling.
1. Eternall. It was fixed on us before the §. 5 dFoundation of the World: before we were, or had done the least good; then were his thoughts upon us, then was his delight in us. Then did the Son rejoyce in the thoughts of fullfilling his Fathers delight in him: Prov. 8. 30. Yea the Delight of the Father in the Son there mentioned, is not so much his absolute delight in him, as the expresse image of his Person, and the brightnesse of his Glory, wherein he might behold all his own Excellencys and perfections; but with respect, unto his love, and his delight in the Sons of men. So the order of the words require us to understand it: I was daily his Delight—and My delights were with the Sonnes of Men. That is, in the thoughts of kindnesse and Redemption for them: and in that respect also, was he his Fathers delight. It was from Eternity that he laid in his own bosome a designe