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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. He doth so value them, as that he will not loose any §. 12 of them to Eternity, though all the world should combine to take them out of his hand. When in the days of his flesh he foresaw what Opposition, what Danger, what Rocks, they should meet with all, he cried out Holy Father keep them, Joh. 17. 11. let not one of them be lost; and tells us plainly Joh. 10. 28. that no man shall take his sheep out of his hand. And because he was then in the form of a servant, & it might be supposed that he might not be able to hold them, he tells them true! as to his present condition of carrying on the work of mediation, his Father was greater then he d& therefore to him he committed them, & none should take them out of his Fathers hands. Joh. 10. 29. & whereas the World, afflictions, & persecutions which are without may be conquered, & yet no security given, but that sin from within, by the assistance of Satan may prevail against them to their ruin; as he hath provided against Satan in his promise, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against them, so he hath taken care that sin ⟨p. 158⟩it self shall not destroy them. Herein indeed is the depth of his Love to be contemplated: that whereas his holy soul hate, every sin, it is a burden, an Abomination, a new wound to him, and his poor spouse is sinful, Believers are full of sins, failings, and infirmities; he hides all, covers all, bears with all, rather then he will loose them; by his power preserving them from such sins as a Remedy is not provided for in the Covenant of Grace. Oh the world of sinful follies, that our dear Lord Jesus bears withal on this account? are not our own souls astonished with the thoughts of it? Infinite patience, Infinite forbearance, Infinite love, Infinite Grace, Infinite Mercy are all set on work for this end, to answer this his Valuation of us.
2. He doth so value them, as that he will not loose any §. 12 of them to Eternity, though all the world should combine to take them out of his hand. When in the days of his flesh he foresaw what Opposition, what Danger, what Rocks, they should meet with all, he cryed out Holy Father keep them,