A53713:725
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. They gather up in their thoughts the sins for which they §. 49 ⟨p. 222⟩have not made a particular reckoning with God in Christ: or if they have begun so to do, yet they have not made clear work of it, nor come to a clear and comfortable issue. There is nothing more dreadful then for a man to be able to digest his convictions: to have sin look him in the face, and speak perhaps some words of terror to him, and to be able by any charms of diversions or delays, to put it off, without coming to a full trial as to state and condition in reference thereunto. This the Saints do. They gather up their sins, lay them in the balance of the Law; see and consider their weight and desert. And then
2. They gather up in their thoughts the sins for which they §. 49 ⟨p. 222⟩have not made a papticular reckoning with God in Christ: or if they have begun so to doe, yet they have not made cleare worke of it, nor come to a cleare and comfortable issue. There is nothing more dreadfull then for a man to be able to digest his convictions: to have sin looke him in the face, and speak perhaps some words of terror to him, and to be able by any charmes of diversions or delays, to put it off, without comming to a full tryall as to state and condition in reference thereunto. This the Saints doe. They gather up their sinnes, lay them in the ballance of the Law; see and consider their weight and desert. And then
3. They make this commutation I speak of with Jesus Christ: §. 50 that is,