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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.
IN the first Epistle of John chap. 1. v. 3. §. 1 the Apostle assures them to whom he wrote, that the Fellowship of Believers is with the Father and with his Son Jesus 1Christ: and this he doth with such an unusual kind of expression as bears the force of an Asseveration, whence we have rendered it, Truly our fellowship &c.
IN the first Epistle of Iohn chap. 1. v. 3. §. 1 the Apostle assures them to whom he wrote, that the Fellowship of Believers is with the Father and with his Son Iesus 1Christ: and this he doth with such an unusuall kind of expression as bears the force of an Asseveration, whence we have rendred it, Truely our fellowship &c.
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The outward appearance and condition §. 2 of the Saints in those days being very mean and contemptible, their leaders being accounted as the filth of this world, and as the offscouring of all things, the inviting others unto Fellowship with them, and a participation of the precious things which they did enjoy, seems 1to be exposed to many contrary Reasonings, and Objections: What benefit is there in Communion with them? Is it any thing else but to be sharers in Troubles, Reproaches, Scorns, and all manner of evils? To prevent, or remove these and the like Exceptions, the Apostle gives them to whom he wrote to know, (and that with some earnestness of expression) that not withstanding all the disadvantages their Fellowship lay under, unto a carnal view, yet in Truth it was and would be found to be, (in reference to some with whom they held it)