A53713:144
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
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.
For the first, I shall only produce some few places of Scripture §. 2 to confirm it, that it is so. 1 Cor. chap. 1. v. 9. God is faithful by whom ye were called to the Fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. This is that whereunto all the Saints are called, and wherein by the Faithfulness of God they shall be preserved, even Fellowship with Jesus Christ our Lord. We are called of God the Father as the Father, in pursuit of his Love, to communion with the Son, as our Lord.
For the first, I shall only produce some few places of Scripture §. 2 to confirme it, that it is so. 1 Cor. chap. 1. v. 9. God is faithfull by whom ye were called to the Fellowship of his Sonne, Jesus Christ our Lord. This is that whereunto all the Saints are called, and wherein by the Faithfullnesse of God they shall be preserved, even Fellowship with Jesus Christ our Lord. We are called of God the Father as the Father, in pursuite of his Love, to communion with the Sonne, as our Lord.
Revel. chap 3 v. 20. aBehold I stand at the door and knock, if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in-to him, and §. 3 sup with him, and he with me. Certainly this is Fellowship, or I know not what is; Christ will Sup with Believers, he refreshes himself with his own Graces in them, by his Spirit bestowed, on them. The Lord Christ is exceedingly delighted in tasting of ⟨p. 42⟩the sweet fruits of the Spirit in the Saints. Hence is that prayer of the Spouse that she may have something for his Entertainment, when he cometh to her. Cant. 4. 16, Awake O North-Wind, and come thou South, blow upon my Garden, that the Spices thereof may flow out, let my beloved come into his Garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. The Souls of the Saints are the Garden of Jesus Christ, the good ground