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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
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.
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 Heb. 6. 7, 8. A Garden for delight: he rejoices in them, his delights are with the Sons of Men: Prov. 8. 31. and he rejoices over them: Zeph 3. 17. And a Garden for fruit, yea pleasant fruit, So he describes it: Cant. 4. 12, 13. 14. A Garden enclosed is my sister my Spouse, a spring shut up, a Fountain sealed; thy Plants are an Orchard of Pomegranates with pleasant fruits, Camphire with Spikenard, Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus, and Cinnamon, with all trees of Frankincense, Myrrh, and Aloes; with all chief fruits. Whatever is sweet and delicious for taste, whatever savoury and odoriferous, whatever is useful and medicinal, is in this Garden. There is all manner of Spiritual refreshments of all kinds whatever, in the Souls of the Saints for the Lord Jesus. On this account is the Spouse so earnest in the prayer mentioned for an increase of these things, that her beloved may sup with her as he hath promised. A wake O north wind &c. Oh that the breathings and workings of the Spirit of all Grace, might stir up all his gifts and Graces in me, that the Lord Jesus the beloved of my soul may have meet and acceptable entertainment from me. God complains of want of fruit in his vineyard,