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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.
2d Purity; as washed Doves eyes for purity; This may be taken either subjectively, for the Excellency, and immixed cleanness §. 36 and purity of his sight, and knowledge in himself; or Objectively, for his delighting to behold purity in others. He is of purer eyes, then to behold iniquity, Hab. 1. 15. he hath no pleasure in wickedness, the foolish shall not stand in his sight, Ps. 5. 4, 5. if the Righteous soul of Lot was vexed with seeing the filthy deeds of wicked men, 2 Pet. 2. 8. who yet had eyes of flesh, in which there was a mixture of impurity: how much more do the pure eyes of our dear Lord Jesus abominate all the filthiness of sinners; but herein lies the Excellency of his Love to us, that he takes care, to take away our filth, and stains, that ⟨p. 81⟩he may delight in us; and seeing we are so defiled, that it could no otherwise be done, he will do it by his own blood, Eph. 5. 25, 26, 27. Even as Christ also loved the […], ••d gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it, with the […] of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy without blemish. The End of this undertaking is, that the Church might be thus gloriously presented unto himself; because he is of purer eyes then to behold it with Joy and delight, in any other condition. He leaves not his Spouse, until he says of her, thou art all fair my Love, there is no spot in thee: Cant. 4. 7. partly he takes away our Spots, and stains by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, and wholly 1adorns us with his own Righteousness, and that because of the purity of his own eyes, which cannot behold iniquity; that he might present us to himself holy.
2d Purity; as washed Doves eyes for purity; This may be taken either subjectively, for the Excellency, and immixed cleannesse §. 36 and purity of his sight, and knowledge in himselfe; or Objectively, for his delighting to behold purity in others. He is of purer eyes, then to behold iniquity,