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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.
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Ob. 2. I can believe that God is Love to others, for he hath said he §. 14 is Love: but that he will be so to me, I see no ground of persuasion: there is no cause, no Reason in the world, why he should turn one thought of love or kindness towards me: and therefore I dare not cast my self upon it, to hold communion with him in his special love.
Ob. 2. I can believe that God is Love to others, for he hath said he §. 14 is Love: but that he will be so to me, I see no ground of perswasion: there is no cause, no Reason in the world, why he should turne one thought of love or kindnesse towards me: and therefore I dare not cast my selfe upon it, to hold communion with him in his speciall love.
Ans. He hath spoken it as particularly to thee, as to any one in ⟨p. 37⟩the world. And for cause of love, he hath as much, to fix it on thee, as on any of the Children of men; that is none at all without himself. So that I shall make speedy work with this objection. Never any one from the foundation of the World, who believed such Love in the Father, and made returns of Love to him again, was deceived, neither shall ever any to the Worlds end be so, in so doing. Thou art then in this upon a most sure bottom: If thou believest and receivest the Father as Love, he will infallibly be so to thee, though others may fall under his severity. but,
Ans. He hath spoken it as particularly to thee, as to any one in ⟨p. 37⟩the world. And for cause of love, he hath as much, to fixe it on thee, as on any of the Children of men; that is none at all without himselfe. So that I shall make speedy work with this objection. Never any one from the foundation of the World, who believed such Love in the Father, and made returnes of Love to him againe, was deceived, neither shall ever any to the Worlds end be so, in so doing. Thou art then in this upon a most sure bottome: If thou believest and receivest the Father as Love, he will infallibly be so to thee, though others may fall under his severity. but,