A53713:739
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.
But you will say: How should we address our selves to the performance of this duty: what path are we to walk in? §. 60
But you will say: How should we addresse our selves to the performance of this duty: what path are we to walk in? §. 60
1. Faith exercises it's self in it especially three ways.
1. Faith exercises it's selfe in it especially three waies.
1. In Meditation. The heart goes over in its own thoughts the ⟨p. 226⟩part above insisted on, sometimes severally, sometimes jointly, sometimes fixing primarily on one thing, sometimes on another, and sometimes going over the whole. At one time perhaps the soul is most upon consideration of its own sinfulness, and filling it self with shame, and self abhorrency on that account; sometimes it is filled with the thoughts of the Righteousness of Christ, and with joy unspeakable, and glorious on that account. Especially on great occasions, when grieved and burdened by negligence or eruption of corruption, then the soul goes over the whole work, and so drives things to an issue with God, and takes up the peace that Christ hath wrought out for him.
1. In Meditation. The heart goes over in its own thoughts the ⟨p. 226⟩part above insisted on, sometimes severally, semetimes joyntly, sometimes fixing primarily on one thing, sometimes on another, and sometimes going over the whole. At one time perhaps the soule is most upon consideration of its own sinfulnesse, and filling it selfe with shame, and selfe abhorrency on that account; sometimes it is filled with the thoughts of the Righteousnesse of Christ, and with joy unspeakable, and glorious on that account. Especially on great occasions, when grieved and burthened by negligence or eruption of corruption, then the soule goes over the whole work, and so drives things to an issue with God, and takes up the peace that Christ hath wrought out for him.