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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
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3. That this wisdom which should tend to universal quietness, hath almost constantly given universal disquietness unto ⟨p. 131⟩themselves, in whom it hath been most eminent. In much wisdom is much grief; Eccles. 1. 18. And in the issue, some of them have made away with themselves, as Ahithophel, & the most of them have been violently dispatched by others. There is indeed no end of the folly 1of this wisdom. The great men of the world carry away the reputation of it: really it is found in few of them. They are for the most part common events, whereunto they contribute not the least mite, which are ascribed to their care, vigilancy and foresight. Mean men that have learned to adore what is above them, reverence the meetings and conferences of those who are in Greatness and esteem. Their weakness and folly is little known; where this wisdom hath been most eminent, it hath dwelt so close upon the borders of Atheism, been attended with such falseness and injustice, that it hath made its possessors: wicked and infamous.
3. That this wisedome which should tend to universall quietnesse, hath allmost constantly given universall disquietnesse unto ⟨p. 131⟩themselves, in whom it hath been most eminent. In much wisedome is much griefe; Ecles. 1. 18. And in the issue, some of them have made away with themselves, as Ahithophel, & the most of them have been violently dispatched by others. There is indeed no end of the folly 1of this wisdome. The great men of the world carry away the reputation of it: really it is found in few of them. They are for the most part common events, whereunto they contribute not the least mite, which are ascribed to their care, vigilancy and foresight. Mean men that have learned to adore what is above them, reverence the meetings and conferences of those who are in Greatnesse and esteem. Their weaknesse and folly is little known; where this wisedome hath been most eminent, it hath dwelt so close upon the borders of Atheisme, been attended with such falsenesse and injustice, that it hath made its possessors: wicked and infamous.