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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.
These three Qualifications of the Love of Christ, make it exceedingly §. 11 eminent, and him exceeding desirable. How many Millions of Sins, in every one of the Elect, every one whereof Were enough to condemn them all, hath this Love overcome? what Mountains of unbelief doth it remove? Look upon the conversation of any one Saint, consider the frame of his Heart, see the many stains and spots, the defilements and Infirmities, wherewith his Life is contaminated, and tell me whether the Love that bears with all this, be not to be admired. And is it not the the same towards thousands every day? what streams of Grace, purging, pardoning, quickening, assisting, do flow from it every day? This is our beloved, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.
These three Qualifications of the Love of Christ, make it exceedingly §. 11 eminent, and him exceeding desireable. How many Millions of Sinnes, in every one of the Elect, every one whereof Were enough to condemne them all, hath this Love overcome? what Mountains of unbeliefe doth it remove? Looke upon the conversation of any one Saint, consider the frame of his Heart, see the many staines and spots, the defilements and Infirmities, wherewith his Life is contaminated, and tell me whether the Love that bears with all this, be not to be admired. And is it not the the same towards thousands every day? what streames of Grace, purging, pardoning, quickning, assisting, do flow from it every day? This is our beloved, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.
2. He is desirable and worthy our Acceptation, as considered in his Humanity; even therein also in reference to us, he is exceedingly §. 12 desirable. I shall only in this note unto you two things:
2. He is desireable and worthy our Acceptation, as considered in his Humanity; even therein also in reference to us, he is exceedingly §. 12 desireable. I shall only in this note unto you two things: