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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 Lord our Righteousness then, may these ensuing things be considered, which are exceeding suitable to prevail upon §. 2 our hearts to give up themselves to be wholly his.
In the Lord our Righteousnesse then, may these ensuing things be considered, which are exceeding suitable to prevaile upon §. 2 our hearts to give up themselves to be wholly his.
1. He is exceeding Excellent and desirable in his aDeity, §. 3 ⟨p. 65⟩and the Glory thereof. He is Jehovah our Righteousness. Jerem. 23. v. 6. In the rejoicing of Zion at his coming to her, this is the Bottom, Behold thy God. Isa. 40. 9. we have seen his Glory (saith the Apostle) what Glory is that? the Glory of the only begotten Son of God John 1. 14. The choicest Saints have been afraid, and amazed at the beauty of an Angel; and the stoutest sinners have trembled at the Glory of one of those creatures in a low appearance, representing but the back parts of their Glory, who yet themselves in their highest Advancement do cover their faces at the presence of our Beloved, as conscious to themselves of their utter disability to bear the rays of his Glory, Isa. 6. 2. Joh. 12. 39, 40. He is the Fellow of the Lord of Hosts Zech: ch. 13. v. 7. And though he once appeared in the form of of a Servant, yet then he thought it no robbery to be EQUAL unto God: Phil. ch. 2. v. 8