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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.
4. Supportment, and Consolation. v. 6. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. Christ here hath the posture §. 10 of a most tender friend towards any one in sickness, and sadness. The Soul faints with Love; spiritual longings after the enjoyment of his presence, and Christ comes in with his Embraces. He nourisheth and cherisheth his Church: Ephes. ch. 5. v. 29. Isa. 63. 13. Now the hand under the head, is supportment, sustaining Grace, in pressures and difficulties; and the hand that doth embrace, the hand upon the heart; is joy and consolation: in both, Christ rejoicing, as the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride. Isa: 62, 5. Now thus to lye in the Arms of Christs Love, under a perpetual influence of supportment and Refreshment, is certainly to hold communion with him. And hereupon v. 1. the spouse is most earnest for the continuance of this fellowship, charging ⟨p. 48⟩all so to demean themselves, that her beloved be not disquieted, or provoked to depart.
4. Supportment, and Consolation. v. 6. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. Christ here hath the posture §. 10 of a most tender friend towards any one in sicknesse, and sadnesse. The Soule faints with Love; spirituall longings after the enjoyment of his presence, and Christ comes in with his Embraces. He nourisheth and cherisheth his Church: Ephes. ch. 5. v. 29. Isa. 63. 13. Now the hand under the head, is supportment, sustaining Grace, in pressures and difficulties; and the hand that doth embrace, the hand upon the heart; is joy and consolation: in both, Christ rejoycing, as the Bridegroome rejoyceth over the Bride. Isa: 62, 5. Now thus to lye in the Armes of Christs Love, under a perpetuall influence of supportment and Refreshment, is certainely to hold communion with him. And hereupon v. 1. the spouse is most earnest for the continuance of this fellowship, charging ⟨p. 48⟩all so to demeane themselves, that her beloved be not disquieted, or provoked to depart.