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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.
As the Lilly among the thorns 1. By the way of Eminency: as the Lilly excelleth the thorns, so do the Saints all others whatever in the Eye of Christ. Let Comparison be made, so will it be found to be. And 2. by the way of trial: the residue of the world, being pricking briers and grieving thorns to the house of Israel. Ezek. 28. 24. The best of them is a brier, and the most upright of them sharper then a thorn Hedge; Mich. 7. 4. And thus are they among the Daughters; even the most eminent Collections, of the most improved professors, that are no more but so. There cannot be in any comparison, a greater exaltation of the Excellency of any thing. So then is Christ to them indeed, v. 1. So are they in his his Esteem, and indeed, v. 2. How he is in their esteem and indeed, we have v. 3.
As the Lilly among the thornes 1. By the way of Eminency: as the Lilly excelleth the thornes, so doe the Saints all others whatever in the Eye of Christ. Let Comparison be made, so will it be found to be. And 2. by the way of triall: the residue of the world, being pricking briers and grieving thornes to the house of Israel. Ezek. 28. 24. The best of them is a brier, and the most upright of them sharper then a thorne Hedge; Mich. 7. 4. And thus are they among the Daughters; even the most eminent Collections, of the most improved professors, that are no more but so. There cannot be in any comparison, a greater exaltation of the Excellency of any thing. So then is Christ to them indeed, v. 1. So are they in his his Esteem, and indeed, v. 2. How he is in their esteem and indeed, we have v. 3.
As the Apple-tree among the Trees of the wood, so is my beloved among §. 5 the Sons, I sate down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste. To carry on this intercourse, the Spouse begins to speak her thoughts of, and to show her delight in the Lord Christ. And as he compares her to the Lilly among the Thorns, so she him to the Apple-tree among the trees of the wood: And she adds this Reason of it, even because he hath the two eminent things of Trees, which the Residue of them have not: 1. Fruit for food. 2. Shade for Refreshment: of the one she eateth, under the other she resteth, both with great delight. All other sons, either Angels, the Sons of God by Creation