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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. To answer this, Believers also value Jesus Christ; they have an esteem of him above all the world, and all things in the §. 8 world. You have been in part acquainted with this before, in the account that was given of their delight in him, and enquiry after him. They say of him in their hearts continually as David, Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and whom in Earth that I desire besides thee. Psal. 73. 25. Neither Heaven nor Earth will yield them an object any way comparable to him, that they can delight in.
2. To answer this, Believers also value Jesus Christ; they have an esteem of him above all the world, and all things in the §. 8 world. You have been in part acquainted with this before, in the account that was given of their delight in him, and enquiry after him. They say of him in their hearts continually as David, Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and whom in Earth that I desire besides thee. Psal. 73. 25. Neither Heaven nor Earth will yeild them an object any way comparable to him, that they can delight in.
1. They value him above all other things and persons, Mallem 1(said one) ruere cum Christo, quam regnare cum Caesare. Pulchra terra, pulchrum coelum, sed pulcherrimus dominus Jesus. Christ and a dungeon, Christ and a cross is infinitely sweeter then a Crown, a Sceptre without him to their souls. So was it with Moses, Heb. 11. 26. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches then the Treasures of Egypt. The reproach of Christ, is the worst consequent that the wickedness of the world or malice of Satan can bring upon the followers of him. The treasures of Egypt were in those days the greatest in the world. Moses despised the very best of the ⟨p. 155⟩