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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 d The expressions, or the Words of such persons, come exceeding short of the labouring of their hearts; and therefore in, ⟨p. 139⟩(and after) their supplications, the Spirit makes intercession with sighs and groans that cannot be muttered. Some mens words go exceedingly beyond their hearts. Did their Spirits come up to their expressions, it were well. He that hath this Assistance, can provide no clothing that is large and broad enough to set forth the desires of his heart; and therefore in the close of his best, and most fervent supplications, such a person finds a double dissatisfaction in them. First, that they are not a Righteousness to be rested on that if God should nmark what is in them amiss, they could not abide the trial. 2. That his heart in them is not poured out, nor delivered in any proportion to the holy desires and labourings that were conceived therein; though they may in Christ have great refreshment by them. The more they speak, the more they find they have left unspoken.
2 d The expressions, or the Words of such persons, come exceeding short of the labouring of their hearts; and therefore in, ⟨p. 139⟩(and after) their supplications, the Spirit makes intercession with sighes and groanes that cannot be muttered. Some mens words goe exceedingly beyond their hearts. Did their Spirits come up to their expressions, it were well. He that hath this Assistance, can provide no clothing that is large and broad enough to set forth the desires of his heart; and therefore in the close of his best, and most fervent supplications, such a person finds a double dissatisfaction in them. First, that they are not a Righteousnesse to be rested on that if God should nmarke what is in them amisse, they could not abide the triall. 2. That his heart in them is not powred out, nor delivered in any proportion to the holy desires and labourings that were conceived therein; though they may in Christ have great refreshment by them. The more they speak, the more they find they have left unspoken.