A53713:408
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.
And this is the first Reason why true wisdom cannot consist in either of these, because they come short even of the particular and immediate ends they aim at. But
And this is the first Reason why true wisedome cannot consist in either of these, because they come short even of the particular and immediate ends they ayme at. But
2. Both these in conjunction, with their utmost improvement, are not able to reach the true general end of wisdom. This Assertion §. 48 also falleth under an easy demonstration; and it were a facile thing to discover their disability and unsuitableness for the true end of wisdom: but it is so professedly done by him who had the largest portion of both of any of the Sons of men (Solomon in his Preacher) that I shall not any further, insist upon it.
2. Both these in conjunction, with their utmost immprovement, are not able to reach the true generall end of wisedome. This Assertion §. 48 also falleth under an easy demonstration; and it were a facile thing to discover their disabilility and unsuitablenesse for the true end of wisedome: but it is so professedly done by him who had the largest portion of both of any of the Sornes of men (Solomon in his Preacher) that I shall not any further, insist upon it.
To draw then unto a close; If true and solid wisdom is not in the least to be found amongst these, if the pearl be not bid in this field, if these two are but vanity & disappointment, it cannot but be to no purpose to seek for it in any thing else below, ⟨p. 132⟩these being amongst them incomparably the most excellent, and therefore with one accord let us set the crown of this Wisdom on the head of the Lord Jesus.