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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 John. chap. 14. v. 23. there is amention of that other kind of love where of we speak. If any man love me (saith Christ) he will ⟨p. 20⟩keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. The Love of Friendship and Approbation, is here eminently ascribed to him; says Christ, we will come, even Father and Son to such a one, and dwell with him, that is, by the Spirit; but yet he would have us take notice, that in point of Love, the Father hath a peculiar prerogative: My Father will love him.
2 Iohn. chap. 14. v. 23. there is amention of that other kind of love where of we speak. If any man love me (saith Christ) he will ⟨p. 20⟩keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. The Love of Friendship and Approbation, is here eminently ascribed to him; says Christ, we will come, even Father and Sonne to such a one, and dwell with him, that is, by the Spirit; but yet he would have us take notice, that in point of Love, the Father hath a peculiar prerogative: My Father will love him.
- aDiligi a patre, recipi in amicitiam• summi Dei; a Deo foveri, adeoque Deo esse in deliciis Bucerus. in loc
6. Yea, and as this love is peculiarly to be eyed in him, so it §. 12 is to be looked on as the fountain of all following gracious Dispensations. Christians walk often times with exceedingly troubled hearts, concerning the thoughts of the Father towards