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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.
1. The Spirit of Christ reveals to us our own wants, that we may reveal them unto him: we know not what &c. Rom. 8. 26. no teachings under those of the spirit of God are able to make our 1souls acquainted with their own wants, its burdens, its Temptations. For a soul to know its wants, its Infirmities, is a Heavenly discovery. He that hath this xassistance, his prayer is more then half made before he begins to pray. His Conscience is affected with what he hath to do: his mind & Spirit contend within him, there especially where he finds himself most straitened. He brings his burden on his shoulders, & unloads himself on the Lord Christ. He finds (not by a perplexing Conviction, but an holy sense & weariness of sin) where he is dead, where dull and cold, wherein unbelieving, wherein tempted above all his strength, where the light of Gods countenance is wanting. And all these the soul hath a sense of, by the Spirit, an unexpressible sense and experience. Without this, prayer is not prayer: lMens voices may be heard but they speak not in their hearts. Sense of want, is the spring of desire: natural of natural; spiritual of spiritual. Without this sense given by the Holy Ghost, there is neither desire nor prayer.
1. The Spirit of Christ reveales to us our own wants, that we may reveale them unto him: we know not what &c. Rom. 8. 26. no teachings under those of the spirit of God are able to make our 1soules acquainted with their own wants, its burdens, its Temptations. For a soul to know its wants, its Infirmities, is a Heavenly discovery. He that hath this xassistance, his prayer is more then half made before he begins to pray. His Conscience is affected with what he hath to do: his mind & Spirit contend within him, there especially where he finds himself most streightned. He brings his burden on his shoulders, & unloads himself on the Lord Christ. He finds (not by a perplexing Conviction, but an holy sence & wearinesse of sin) where he is dead, where dull and cold, wherein unbelieving, wherein ttempted above all his strength, where the light of Gods countenance is wanting. And all these the soule hath a sense of, by the Spirit, an unexpressible sence and experience. Without this, prayer is not prayer: