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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.
3. The third conjugal Affection on the part of Christ is pity §. 14 and compassion. As a man nourisheth and cherisheth his iown flesh, so doth the Lord his Church Ephes. 5. 29. Christ hath a fellow feeling with his Saints in all their troubles as a man hath with his own flesh. This Act of the conjugal love of Christ, relates to ⟨p. 159⟩the many trials and pressures of Afflictions that his Saints meet withal here below. He doth not deal with Believers as the Samaritans with the Jews; that fawned on them in their prosperity, but despised them in their trouble. He is a: a tender kFather, who though perhaps he love all his children alike, yet he will take most pains with, and give most of his presence unto one that is sick and weak, though therein and thereby, he may be made most froward, and as it should seem hardest to be borne with. And which is more then the pity of any Father can extend to, he himself suffers with them, and takes share in all their troubles.
3. The third conjugall Affection on the part of Christ is pitty §. 14 and compassion. As a man nourisheth and cherisheth his iown flesh, so doth the Lord his Church Ephes. 5. 29. Christ hath a fellow feeling with his Saints in all their troubles as a man hath with his own flesh. This Act of the conjugall love of Christ, relates to ⟨p. 159⟩the many trialls and pressures of Afflictions that his Saints meet withall here below. He doth not deale with Believers as the Samaritans with the Jewes; that fawned on them in their prosperity, but despised them in their trouble. He is a: a tender kFather, who though perhaps he love all his children alike, yet he will take most paines with, and give most of his presence unto one that is sick and weake, though therein and thereby, he may be made most froward, and as it should seem hardest to be borne with. And which is more then the pitty of any Father can extend to, he himselfe suffers with them, and takes share in all their troubles.