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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.
4 The Apostle teaches the same Rom. chap. 5. 5. The Love §. 10 of God is shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Ghost, that is, given unto you. God whose Love this is, is plainly distinguished from the Holy Ghost, who sheds abroad that Love of his; And v. 8. he is also distinguished from the Son; for it is from that Love of his, that the Son is sent; and therefore it is the Father of whom the Apostle here specially speaketh: and what is it that he ascribes to him? even Love; which also v. 8. he commendeth to us, sets it forth in such a signal and eminent expression, that we may take notice of it, and close with him in it. To carry this business to its height; there is not only most frequent peculiar mention made of the Love of God, where the Father is eminently intended, and of the Love of the Father expressly, but he is also called the God of Love, 2 Cor. 13. 11. and is said to be love, so that whoever will know him, 1 John 4. 8. or dwell in him by fellowship or Communion, vers 16. must do it as he is Love.
4 The Apostle teaches the same Rom. chap. 5. 5. The Love §. 10 of God is shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Ghost, that is, given unto you. God whose Love this is, is plainely distinguished from the Holy Ghost, who sheds abroad that Love of his; And v. 8. he is also distinguished from the Sonne; for it is from that Love of his, that the Son is sent; and therefore it is the Father of whom the Apostle here specially speaketh: and what is it that he ascribes to him? even Love; which also v. 8. he commendeth to us, sets it forth in such a signall and eminent expression, that we may take notice of it, and close with him in it. To carry this businesse to its height; there is not only most frequent peculiar mention made of the Love of God, where the Father is eminently intended, and of the Love of the Father expressely, but he is also called the God of Love, 2 Cor. 13. 11. and is said to be love, so that whoever will know him, 1 John 4. 8. or dwell in him by fellowship or Communion, vers 16. must doe it as he is Love.