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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. Christ sometimes, by some strong impulse of actual grace §. 18 recovers the soul from the very borders of Sin. So it was in the case of David, 1 Sam. 24. 4, 5, 6. He was almost gone as he speaks himself, his feet had well nigh slipped. The temptation was at the door of prevalency when a mighty impulse of Grace recovers him. To show his Saints what they are, their own weakness and infirmity, he sometimes suffers them to go to the very edge and brow of the hill, and then causeth them to here a word behind them saying this is the right way walk in it, and that with power and efficacy, and so recovers them to himself.
2. Christ sometimes, by some strong impulse of actuall grace §. 18 recovers the soule from the very borders of Sin. So it was in the case of David, 1 Sam. 24. 4, 5, 6. He was almost gone as he speakes himselfe, his feet had well nigh slipt. The temptation was at the door of prevalency when a mighty impulse of Grace recovers him. To shew his Saints what they are, their own weakenesse and infirmity, he sometimes suffers them to goe to the very edge and brow of the hill, and then causeth them to here a word behind them saying this is the right way walk in it, and that with power and efficacy, and so recovers them to himselfe.
3. By taking away the Temptation it self, when it grows so strong and violent that the poor soul knows not what to do. This is called delivering the Godly out of temptation 2 Pet. 2. 9. As a man is plucked out of the snare, and the snare left behind to hold another. This have I known to be the case of many in sundry perplexing Temptations. When they have been quite weary, have tried all means of help and assistance, and have not been able to come to a comfortable issue, on a sudden, unexpectedly the Lord Christ in his tenderness and compassion, rebukes Satan, that they hear not one word more of him as to their temptation, Christ comes in, in the storm and saith peace, be still.