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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.
Ob. But some may say! Alas how shall I hold communion with §. 13 the Father in Love? I know not at all whether be Loves me or no; and shall I venture to cast my self upon it? How if I should not be accepted? should I not rather perish for my presumption, then find sweetness in his Bosom? God seems to me, only as a consuming fire, and everlasting burnings, so that I dread to look up unto him.
Ob. But some may say! Alasse how shall I hold communion with §. 13 the Father in Love? I know not at all whether be Loves me or no; and shall I venture to cast my selfe upon it? How if I should not be accepted? should I not rather perish for my presumption, then find sweetnesse in his Bosome? God seems to me, only as a consuming fire, and everlasting burnings, so that I dread to look up unto him.
Ans. I know not what may be understood by knowing of the Love of God: though it be carried on by Spiritual sense, and Experience, yet it is received purely by believing. Our knowing of it, is our believing of it, as revealed. We have known and believed the Love that God hath to us, God is Love, 1 Joh. ch. 4. v. 16. This is the Assurance which at the very Entrance of walking with God thou mayest have of this Love, He who is Truth hath said it: and what-ever thy Heart says, or Satan says, unless thou wilt take it up on this account, thou doest thy endeavour to make him a liar, who hath spoken it. 1 Joh. 5. 10.
Ans. I know not what may be understood by knowing of the Love of God: though it be carried on by Spirituall sense, and Experience, yet it is received purely by believing. Our knowing of it, is our believing of it, as revealed. We have known and believed the Love that God hath to us, God is Love, 1 Joh. ch. 4. v. 16. This is the Assurance which at the very Entrance of walking with God thou maist have of this Love, He who is Truth hath said it: and what-ever thy Heart saies, or Sathan saies, unlesse thou wilt take it up on this account, thou doest thy endeavour to make him a lyar, who hath spoken it.