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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. That the loss of it, is part of that curse which was inflicted on us for sin. What ever we come short in of the state of the first man in innocency, whether in loss of good, or addition of evil, it is all of the curse for sin. Besides! that blindness, ignorance, ⟨p. 127⟩darkness, deadness, which is every where ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak.
2. That the losse of it, is part of that curse which was inflicted on us for sinne. What ever we come short in of the state of the first man in innocency, whether in losse of good, or addition of evill, it is all of the curse for sinne. Besides! that blindnesse, ignorance, ⟨p. 127⟩darknesse, deadnesse, which is every where ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprize that also whereof we speake.
On these two considerations it is most apparent, that Learning, can no way of it self attain the end it aimeth at. For §. 44
On these two considerations it is most apparent, that Learning, can no way of it selfe attaine the end it aymeth at. For §. 44
1. That Light which by it is discovered, (which the Lord knows is very little, weak, obscure, imperfect, uncertain, conjectural, for a great part only enabling men to quarrel with, and oppose one another, to the reproach of Reason, yet I say, that which is attained by it,) is not in the least measure by it spiritualized, or brought into that order of living to God, and with God, wherein at first it lay. This is wholly beyond its reach. As to this end, the Apostle assures us, that the utmost Issue that men come to, is darkness and folly: