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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. The darkness and ignorance that it strives to remove, being come upon us as a curse, it is not in the least measure, as it is a curse, able to remove it or take it away. He that hath attained to the greatest height of Literature, yet if he hath nothing else, if he have not Christ, is as much under the curse of blindness, ignorance, stupidity, dullness, as the poorest, silliest soul in the world. The curse is only removed in him who was made a curse for us. Every thing that is penal is taken away only by him, on whom all our sins did meet in a way of punishment, yea upon this Account. The more Abilities the mind is furnished withal, the more it closes with the curse, and strengthens it self to act its enmity against God. All that it receives doth but help it to set up high thoughts and imaginations against the Lord Christ. So that this knowledge comes short of what in particular it is designed unto, and therefore cannot be that solid wisdom we are enquiring after.
2. The darkenesse and ignorance that it strives to remove, being come upon us as a curse, it is not in the least measure, as it is a curse, able to remove it or take it away. He that hath attained to the greatest height of Literature, yet if he hath nothing else, if he have not Christ, is as much under the curse of blindnesse, ignorance, stupidity, dulnes, as the poorest, silliest soule in the world. The curse is only removed in him who was made a curse for us. Every thing that is penall is taken away only by him, on whom all our sinnes did meet in a way of punnishment, yea upon this Account. The more Abilityes the mind is furnished withall, the more it closes with the curse, and strengthens it selfe to act its enmity against God. All that it receives doth but helpe it to set up high thoughts and imaginations against the Lord Christ. So that this knowledge comes short of what in particular it is designed unto, and therefore cannot be that solid wisedome we are enquiring after.
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