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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.
Herein then of all things, do the Saints endeavour to keep §. 21 their Affections chaste and loyal to Jesus Christ. He is made unto them of God Righteousness, and they will own nothing else to that purpose: yea sometimes they know not whether they have any interest in him or no; he absents and withdraws himself, they still continue solitary in a state of widowhood, refusing to be comforted, though many things offer themselves to that purpose, because he is not. When Christ is at any time absent from the soul, when it cannot see that it hath any interest in him, many lovers offer themselves to it, many woo it's Affections to get it to rest on this or that thing for relief and succour; but though it go mourning never so long it will have nothing but Christ to lean upon. When ever the soul is in the wilderness, in the saddest condition, there it will stay until Christ come for to take it up; until it can come forth leaning upon him, Cant. 8. 5. The many instances of this that the book of Canticles affords us, we have in part spoken of before.
Herein then of all things, doe the Saints endeavour to keep §. 21 their Affections chast and loyall to Jesus Christ. He is made unto them of God Righteousnesse, and they will own nothing els to that purpose: yea sometimes they know not whether they have any interest in him or no; he absents and withdrawes himselfe, they still continue solitary in a state of widdowhood, refusing to be comforted, though many things offer themselves to that purpose, because he is not. When Christ is at any time absent from the soul, when it cannot see that it hath any interest in him, many lovers offer themselves to it, many wooe it's Affections to get it to rest on this or that thing for reliefe and succour; but though it goe mourning never so long it will have nothing but Christ to leane upon. When ever the soule is in the wildernesse, in the saddest condition, there it will stay untill Christ come for to take it up; untill it can come forth leaning upon him, Cant. 8. 5. The many instances of this that the book of Canticles affords us, we have in part spoken of before.