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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. 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.
2. Neither can the Second part of the choisest wisedome out of Christ attaine the peculiar end whereunto it is appointed; and that is Prudence in the mannagement of Civill affaires, then which no perishing thing is more Glorious, nothing more usefull for the common good of humane kind. Now the immediate End of this prudence is to keep the rationall world in bounds and order, to draw circles about the Sonnes of men, and to keep them from passing their alotted bounds and limits, to the mutuall 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 Summe and aime of all Wisdome below is, to cause all things to move in their proper Sphere, whereby it would be impossible there should be any more enterfering, then is in the Celestiall Orbes, notwithstanding all their divers and various motions; To keep all to their own alotments, within the compasse of the lines that are fallen unto them is the speciall end of this wisedome.
Now it will be a very easy task to demonstrate, that all Civill Prudence, whatever, (besides the vexation of its attainment,