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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.
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, In the Glory of this Majesty he dwells in Light inaccessible. We cannot by searching find out the Almighty to Perfection: it is high as Heaven, what can we do? it is deeper then Hell what can we know, the measure thereof is longer then the Earth, and broader then the Sea. Job. 11. v. 7, 8, 9. We may all say one to another of this! surely we are more brutish then any man, & have not the understanding of a man; We neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy; who hath ascended up into Heaven or descended, who hath gathered the wind in his fist, who hath bound the waters in a Garment, who hath established the Ends of the Earth, what is his name, and what is his Sons name, if ye can tell.