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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.
Two of these, are of the same kind; and two distinct: as is required in this Relation, wherein all things stand not on equal terms.
Two of these, are of the same kind; and two distinct: as is required in this Relation, wherein all things stand not on equall termes.
1. The first thing on the part of Christ is Delight. Delight is the §. 2, flowing of Love & Joy: the arest and complacence of the mind, in a suitable desirable Good enjoyed. Now Christ delights exceedingly in his Saints; As the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee, Is. 62 5. hence he calleth the day of his Espousals, the day of the gladness of his heart Can. 3 11. It is known that usually this is the most immixed delight, that the Sons of men are in their Pilgrimage made partakers of. The Delight of the Bridegroom in the day of his espousals is the height of what an expression of delight can be carried unto. This is in Christ answerable to the Relation he takes us into. His heart is glad in us, without sorrow. And every day whilst we live is his wedding day. It is said of him. Zeph. 3. 17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee (that is dwelling amongst us taking our nature Joh. 1. 14.) is mighty, he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his Love, he will joy over thee with singing: which is a full description of delight in all the parts of it; joy; and exaltation, rest and complacence. I rejoiced (said he) in the habitable parts of the earth, and my delights were with the Sons of men. Prov. 8. 31. The thoughts of Communion with the Saints, were the joy of his heart from Eternity. On the Compact and agreement that was between his Father and him, that he should divide a portion with the Strong, and save a remnant for his inheritance, his soul rejoiced in the thoughts of that pleasure and delight, which he would take in them, when he should actually take them into Communion with himself. Therefore in the preceding verse it is said he was by him as [Greek or Hebrew]; say we as one brought up with him: alumnus: the 70 render it [Greek or Hebrew]; and the latin with most other translations, cuncta componens, or disponens. The word taken actively signify; him whom another takes into his care to breed up, and