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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.
Moreover; what a safe and sweet retreat is here for the Saints, §. 17 in all the Scorns, Reproaches, Scandals, misrepresentations which they undergo in the World. When sa Child is abused abroad in the streets by strangers, he runs with speed to the bosom of his Father; there he makes his complaint, and is comforted. In all the hard tcensures, and tongue-persecutions which the Saints meet withal in the streets of the World, they may run with their moanings unto their Father, and be comforted. As one whom his Mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, (saith the Lord) Isa: 66. v. 13. So that the Soul may say, if I have hatred in the World, I will go where I am sure of Love: though all others are hard to me, yet my Father is tender, and full of compassion: I will go to him, and satisfy my self in him: Here I am accounted vile, frowned on, and rejected, but I have honour and Love with him, whose kindness is better then Life it self. There I shall have all things in the Fountain, which others have but in the drops: there is in my Fathers Love, every thing desirable: there is the sweetness of all mercies in the abstract it self, and that fully, and durably.
Moreover; what a safe and sweet retreat is here for the Saints, §. 17 in all the Scornes, Reproaches, Scandalls, misrepresentations which they undergoe in the World. When sa Child is abused abroad in the streets by strangers, he runns with speed to the bosome of his Father; there he makes his complaint, and is comforted. In all the hard tcensures, and tongue-persecutions which the Saints meet withall in the streets of the World, they may runne with their moanings unto their Father, and be comforted. As one whom his Mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, (saith the Lord) Isa: 66. v. 13. So that the Soule may say, if I have hatred in the World, I will goe where I am sure of Love: though all others are hard to me, yet my Father is tender, and full of compassion: I will goe to him, and satisfy my selfe in him: Here I am accounted vile, frowned on, and rejected, but I have honour and Love with him, whose kindnesse is better then Life it selfe. There I shall have all things in the Fountaine, which others have but in the dropps: there is in my Fathers Love, every thing desireable: there is the sweetnesse of all mercies in the abstract it selfe, and that fully, and durably.