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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 be sundry other things whereby it were easy to blur ⟨p. 129⟩1the countenance of this wisdom, and from its intricacy, difficulty, uncertainty, unsatisfactoriness, betraying its followers into that which they most profess to avoid, blindness and folly, to write upon it vanity and vexation of Spirit I hope I shall not need to add any thing to clear my self for not giving a due esteem and respect unto Literature, my intendment being only to cast it down at the feet of Jesus Christ, and to set the crown upon his head.
There be sundry other things whereby it were easy to blurre ⟨p. 129⟩1the countenance of this wisedome, and from its intricacy, difficulty, uncertainty, unsatisfactorinesse, betraying its followers into that which they most professe to avoid, blindnesse and folly, to write upon it vanity and vexation of Spirit I hope I shall not need to adde any thing to cleare my selfe for not giving a due esteem and respect unto Literature, my intendment being only to cast it down at the feet of Jesus Christ, and to set the crowne upon his head.
- 1§. 45. [Greek or Hebrew]: Greg. Naz. Car. 1. de reb. suis.§. 45. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: Greg. Naz. Car. 1. de reb. suis.
2. Neither can the Second part of the choicest wisdom out of Christ attain the peculiar end whereunto it is appointed; and that is Prudence in the management of Civill affairs, then which no perishing thing is more Glorious, nothing more useful for the common good of humane kind. Now the immediate End of this prudence is to keep the rational world in bounds and order, to draw circles about the Sons of men, and to keep them from passing their allotted bounds and limits, to the mutual disturbance and destruction of each other. All manner of trouble and disturbance ariseth from irregularity; one man breaking in upon the rights, usages, interests, relations of another, sets this World at variance. The Sum and aim of all Wisdom below is, to cause all things to move in their proper Sphere, whereby it would be impossible there should be any more interfering, then is in the Celestial Orbs, notwithstanding all their divers and various motions; To keep all to their own allotments, within the compass of the lines that are fallen unto them is the special end of this wisdom.