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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.
2. In the nature of it; what is there in that forbearance, which out of Christ is revealed? merely a not immediate punishing upon §. 14 the poffence; and withal giving and continuing tempor all mercies; such things as men are prone to abuse, and may perish with their bosoms full of them, to Eternity. That which lies hid in Christ, and is revealed from him, is full of Love, sweetness, tenderness, kindness, Grace. It is the Lords waiting to be gracious to sinners: waiting for an advantage to show love and kindness for the most eminent endearing of a soul unto himself, Isa. 30. 18. Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you Neither is there any Revelation of God, that the soul finds more sweetness in, then this: When it is experimentally convinced, that God from time to time hath passed by many innumerable iniquities; he is astonished to think that God should do so, and admires that he did not take the Advantage of his provocations, to cast him out of his presence; He finds that with infinite wisdom in all long suffering he hath managed all his dispensations towards him, to recover him from the power of the Devil, to rebuke and chasten his spirit for sin, to endear him unto himself; there is, I say, nothing of greater sweetness to the soul then this, and therefore the Apostle says, Rom. 3. 25. that all is through the forbearance of God: God makes way for complete forgiveness of sins, through this his forbearance; which the other doth not.
2. In the nature of it; what is there in that forbearance, which out of Christ is revealed? meerely a not immediate punishing upon §. 14 the poffence; and withall giving and continuing tempor all mercies; such things as men are prone to abuse, and may perish with their bosomes full of them, to Eternity. That which lyes hid in Christ, and is revealed from him, is full of Love, sweetnesse, tendernesse, kindnesse, Grace. It is the Lords waiting to be gracious to sinners: waiting for an advantage to shew love and kindnesse for the most eminent endearing of a soule unto himselfe,