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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.
Gods All-sufficiency in himself, is his Absolute and Universal Perfection; whereby nothing is wanting in him, nothing to him: no accession can be made to his fullness, no decrease or wasting can happen thereunto. There is also in him an All-sufficiency for others: Which is his power to impart and communicate his goodness, and Himself, so to them, as to satisfy and fill them in their utmost capacity, with whatever is good and desirable to them. For the first of these, his All-sufficiency for the Communication of his goodness, that is in the outward Effect of it, God abundantly manifested in the Creation; in that he made all things good, all things perfect, that is to whom nothing was wanting in their own kind; he put a stamp of his own goodness upon them all. But now for the latter, his giving himself as an Allsufficient God, to be enjoyed by the Creatures, to hold out all that is in him for the satiating and making them blessed, that is alone discovered by and in Christ. In him he is a Father, a God in Covenant, wherein he hath promised to lay out himself for them, in him hath he promised to give himself into their Everlasting fruition as their exceeding great reward.
Gods Allsufficiency in himselfe, is his Absolute and Universall Perfection; whereby nothing is wanting in him, nothing to him: no accession can be made to his fullnesse, no decrease or wasting can happen thereunto. There is also in him an Allsufficiency for others: Which is his power to impart and communicate his goodnesse, and Himselfe, so to them, as to satisfie and fill them in their utmost capacity, with whatever is good and desireable to them. For the first of these, his Allsufficiency for the Communication of his goodnesse, that is in the outward Effect of it, God abundantly manifested in the Creation; in that he made all things good, all things perfect, that is to whom nothing was wanting in their own kind; he put a stampe of his own goodnesse upon them all. But now for the latter, his giving himselfe as an Allsufficient God, to be enjoyed by the Creatures, to hold out all that is in him for the satiating and making them blessed, that is alone discover'd by and in Christ. In him he is a Father, a God in Covenant, wherein he hath promised to lay out himselfe for them, in him hath he promised to give himselfe into their Everlasting fruition as their exceeding great reward.