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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.
The Cheeks of a man are the seat of Comeliness, and manlike courage; The Comeliness of Christ, as hath in part been §. 40 declared, is from his fullness of Grace in himself for us. His manly Courage respects the Administration of his Rule, and Government, from his fullness of Authority, as was before declared. This Comeliness and Courage; the Spouse describing Christ as a beautiful, desirable personage, to show that Spiritually he is so, calleth his Cheeks; so to make up his parts, and proportion. And to them doth she ascribe a sweet savour, Order, and Eminency a sweet savour; as God is said to smell a sweet savour from the Grace and Obedience of his servants (Gen 8. 2. the Lord smelled a savour of rest from the Sacrifice of Noah) so do the Saints, smell a sweet savour from his Grace laid up in Christ. Cant. 1. 3. It is that which they rest in, which they delight in, which they are refreshed with. As the smell of aromaticall spices, and flowers, please the natural sense, refresh the spirits and delight the person, so do the Graces of Christ to his Saints; They please their Spiritual sense, they refresh their drooping Spirits, and give delight to their souls. If he be nigh them they ⟨p. 83⟩smell his Raiment, as Isaac the raiment of Jacob; They say it is as the smell of a field that the Lord hath blessed, Gen. 27. 27. and their souls are refreshed with it.
The Cheeks of a man are the seat of Comlinesse, and manlike courage; The Comlinesse of Christ, as hath in part been §. 40 declared, is from his fullnesse of Grace in himselfe for us. His manly Courage respects the Administration of his Rule, and Goverment, from his fullnesse of Authority, as was before declared. This Comlinesse and Courage; the Spouse describing Christ as a beautifull, desireable personage, to shew that Spiritually he is so, calleth his Cheeks; so to make up his parts, and proportion. And to them doth she ascribe a sweet savour, Order, and Eminency a sweet savour; as God is said to smell a sweet savour from the Grace and Obedience of his servants (Gen 8. 2. the Lord smelled a savour of rest from the Sacrifice of Noah) so do the Saints, smell a sweet savour from his Grace laid up in Christ. Cant. 1. 3