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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.
The next thing that comes under consideration, is, the Way whereby we hold communion with the Lord Christ, §. 1 in respect of that personal Grace whereof we have spoken. Now this the Scripture manifests to be by the way of a conjugal Relation: He is married unto us, and we unto him; which spiritual Relation is attended with suitable conjugal affections. And this gives us fellowship with him, as to his personal excellencies.
THe next thing that comes under consideration, is, the Way whereby we hold communion with the Lord Christ, §. 1 in respect of that personall Grace whereof we have spoken. Now this the Scripture manifests to be by the way of a conjugall Relation: He is married unto us, and we unto him; which spirituall Relation is attended with suitable conjugall affections. And this gives us fellowship with him, as to his personall excellencies.
This the Spouse expresseth Cant: 2. v. 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. He is mine, I possess him, I have interest in him, as §. 2 my Head, and my Husband: and I am his, possessed of him, owned by him, given up unto him, and that as to my beloved in a Conjugal Relation.
This the Spouse expresseth Cant: 2. v. 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. He is mine, I possesse him, I have interest in him, as §. 2 my Head, and my Husband: and I am his, possessed of him, owned by him, given up unto him, and that as to my beloved in a Conjugall Relation.
So Isa: 54. v. 5. Thy maker is thine Husband (the Lord of hosts is his name) and thy Redeemer the holy one of Israel, the God of the whole Earth shall he be called This is yielded as the Reason, why the Church shall not be ashamed nor confounded, in the middest of her Troubles and Trials, she is married unto her Maker, and her Redeemer is her Husband. And Isa. ch: 61. 10. setting out the mutual Glory of Christ and his Church in their walking together, he saith it is, as a Bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a Bride adorneth her self with Jewels: such is their condition, because such is their Relation: which he also farther expresseth ch. 62. v. 5 As the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. As it is with such persons in the day of their Espousals, in the day of the Gladness of their hearts, so is it with Christ and his Saints in this Relation: He is a Husband to them, providing that it may be with them, according to the state and condition whereinto he hath taken them.