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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 end of it in respect of others, in the world is manifold. 1. It serves to the Conviction, and stopping the mouths of §. 32 some of the Enemies of God, both here and hereafter: Here, 1 Pet. 3. 16. Keeping a good Conscience that wherein they speak against you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, beholding your good conversation in Christ. By our keeping of a good Conscience men will be made ashamed of their false accusations. That whereas their malice and hatred of the ways of God, hath provoked them to speak all manner of evil of the profession of them; by the Holiness and Righteousness of the Saints, they are convinced, and made ashamed, as a Thief is when he is taken, and be driven to acknowledge that God is amongst them, and that they are wicked themselves, Joh. 17. 23. 2. Hereafter; It is said that the Saints shall judge the World: It is on this as well as upon other considerations. Their good works, their Righteousness, their Holiness shall be brought forth, and manifested to all the world, and the Righteousness of Gods judgements against wicked men, be thence evinced; See, says Christ, these are they that I own, whom you so despised and abhorred; and see, their works following them, this and that they have done, when you wallowed in your Abominations, Math. 25. 42, 43.
3. The end of it in respect of others, in the world is manifold. 1. It serves to the Conviction, and stopping the mouthes of §. 32 some of the Enemies of God, both here and hereafter: Here, 1 Pet. 3. 16. Keeping a good Conscience that wherein they speak against you as evill doers, they may be ashamed, beholding your good conversation in Christ. By our keeping of a good Conscience men will be made ashamed of their false accusations. That whereas their malice and hatred of the wayes of God, hath provoked them to speake all manner of evill of the profession of them; by the Holinesse and Righteousnesse of the Saints, they are convinced, and made ashamed, as a Thiefe is when he is taken, and be driven to acknowledge that God is amongst them, and that they are wicked themselves, Ioh. 17. 23