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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.
To this purpose we have his faithful engagement Hos. ch. §. 3 ⟨p. 59⟩2. v. 19, 20. I will (saith he) betroth thee unto me for ever, yea I will betroth thee unto me in Righteousness, and in Judgement, and in loving kindness, and in mercies, I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness. And it is the main design of the Ministry of the Gospel to prevail with men to give up themselves unto the Lord Christ, as he reveals his kindness in this engagement. Hence Paul tells the Corinthians, 1 Epist. ch. 11. v. 2. that he had espoused them unto one Husband, that he might present them as a Chaste virgin unto Christ. This he had prevailed upon them for, by the preaching of the Gospel, that they should give up themselves as a Virgin, unto him who had betrothed them to himself, as an Husband,
To this purpose we have his faithfull engagement Hos. ch. §. 3 ⟨p. 59⟩2. v. 19, 20. I will (saith he) betroth thee unto me for ever, yea I will betroth thee unto mee in Righteousnesse, and in Judgement, and in loving kindnesse, and in mercies, I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulnesse. And it is the main designe of the Ministry of the Gospell to prevaile with men to give up themselves unto the Lord Christ, as he reveales his kindnesse in this engagement. Hence Paul tells the Corinthians, 1 Epist. ch. 11. v. 2. that he had espoused them unto one Husband, that he might present them as a Chast virgin unto Christ. This he had prevailed upon them for, by the preaching of the Gospell, that they should give up themselves as a Virgin, unto him who had betrothed them to himselfe, as an Husband,
And this is a Relation wherein the Lord Jesus is exceedingly §. 4 delighted; and inviteth others to behold him in this his Glory. Cant. 3. 11. Go forth (saith he) O ye Daughters of Jerusalem, and behold King Solomon with the Crown wherewith his Mother Crowned him, in the day of his Espousals, and in the day of the Gladness of his heart. He calls forth the daughters of Jerusalem, all sorts of Professors to consider him in the condition of betrothing and espousing his Church unto himself: moreover he tells them that they shall find on him two things eminently upon this account.