A53713:85
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.
1. They agree in two things. 1. That they are each a love of Rest and Complacency.
1. The love of God is so. Zeph. chap. 3. v. 17. The Lord thy God in the middest of thee is mighty: he will save, he will rejoice over thee with Joy, he will REST in his love, he will joy over thee with ⟨p. 24⟩Singing. Both these things are here assigned unto God in his Love; kREST and DELIGHT. The words are [Greek or Hebrew] he shall be silent because of his love. To rest with contentment is expressed by being silent; that is without repining, without complaint. This God doth upon the account of his own love. so full, so every way complete & absolute, that it will not allow him to complain of any thing in them whom he loves, but is silent on the account thereof. Or rest in his Love, that is, he will not remove it; he will not seek farther for another Object. It shall make its abode upon the soul where it is once fixed, for ever. And Complacency or Delight: he rejoiceth with singing, as one that is fully satisfied in that Object he hath fixed his Love on. Here are two words used to express the delight and Joy that God hath in his Love: [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]. The first denotes the inward Affection of the mind, joy of heart; and to set out the intenseness hereof, it is said, he shall do it [Greek or Hebrew] in gladness, or with Joy; to have joy of heart in gladness is the highest expression of delight in Love: the latter word denotes not the inward affection, but the outward *demonstration of it: [Greek or Hebrew] seems to be formed of it. It is to exult in outward demonstration of internal delight and joy*. Tripudiare; to leap as men overcome with some joyful surprisal. And therefore God is said to do this [Greek or Hebrew], with a joyful sound, or singing: to rejoice with gladness of heart, to exult with singing and praise argues the greatest delight and complacency possible. When he would express the contrary of this Love, he says [Greek or Hebrew], he was not well pleased.