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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. It is Eternal. Come ye near unto me, hear you this, I have not (saith he) spoken from the beginning in secret, from the Time that it was, §. 8 there am I, and now the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me: Isa. ch. 48. 16. He himself is yesterday, to day, and for ever, and so is 1his Love, being his who is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning, and the ending, which is, which was, and which is to come. Revel. 1. 11.
1. It is Eternall. Come ye neare unto me, heare you this, I have not (saith he) spoken from the beginning in secret, from the Time that it was, §. 8 there am I, and now the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me: Isa. ch. 48. 16. He himselfe is yesterday, to day, and for ever, and so is 1his Love, being his who is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning, and the ending, which is, which was, and which is to come. Revel. 1. 11.
2. Unchangeable. Our Love is like our selves; as we are, so are all our Affections: so is the Love of Christ, like himself: we §. 9 love one, one day, and hate him the next: he changeth, and we change also; this day he is our right Hand, our right eye, the next 1