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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.
There are two things that might seem to have some colour in §. 3 claiming a Title and interest in this business 1. Civill Wisdom and prudence, for the management of affairs. 2. Ability of Learning and literature, but God rejecteth both these as of no use at all to the end and intent of true Wisdom indeed. There is in the world that which is called understanding, but it comes to nothing: There is that which is called Wisdom, but it is turned into folly. 1 Cor. 1. 19, 20. God brings to nothing the understanding of the prudent, and makes foolish the wisdom of the World. And if there be neither Wisdom nor knowledge (as doubtless there is not) without the knowledge of God, Jerem 8. 9 it is all shut up in the Lord Christ. Joh. 1. 18. no man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath revealed him. He is nor seen at any other time Joh 5. 37. nor known upon any other account, but only the Revelation of the Son: He hath manifested him from his own bosom: and therefore v. 9. it is said that he is the true light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world. The true light which hath it in himself, and none hath any but from him, and all have it who come unto him: He who doth not so, is in darkness.
There are two things that might seem to have some colour in §. 3 claiming a Title and interest in this businesse 1. Civill Wisdome and prudence, for the management of affaires. 2. Ability of Learning and literature, but God rejecteth both these as of no use at all to the end and intent of true Wisedome indeed. There is in the world that which is called understanding, but it comes to nothing: There is that which is called Wisedome, but it is turned into folly. 1 Cor. 1. 19, 20. God brings to nothing the understanding of the prudent, and makes foolish the wisedome of the World. And if there be neither Wisedome nor knowledge (as doubtlesse there is not) without the knowledge of God, Jerem 8. 9 it is all shut up in the Lord Christ. Joh. 1. 18