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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.
There are two things in the words. Christs departure, and the usefulness of it to his Disciples. For his departure, it is known what is intended by it: The withdrawing his bodily presence from the earth after his Resurrection, the heavens being to receive him, until the time of the restitution of all things. For in respect 1of his Deity, and the exercise of Love and care towards them, he promised to be with them to the end of the world, Mat. 28. last. Of this saith he [Greek or Hebrew], it conduceth to your good; it is profitable for you, it is for your advantage, it will answer the end that you aim at; that is the sense of the word, which we have translated, expedient: it is for your profit and advantage. This then is that, which our Saviour asserts; and that with the earnestness before mentioned, desiring to convince his sorrowful followers of the truth of it; namely, that his departure which they so much feared, and were troubled to think of, would turn to their profit and advantage.
There are two things in the words. Christs departure, and the usefulnesse of it to his Disciples. For his departure, it is known what is intended by it: The withdrawing his bodily presence from the earth after his Resurrection, the heavens being to receive him, untill the time of the restitution of all things. For in respect 1of his Diety, and the exercise of Love and care towards them, he promised to be with them to the end of the world, Mat. 28. last. Of this saith he 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it conduceth to your good; it is profitable for you, it is for your advantage, it will answer the end that you aime at; that is the sence of the word, which we have translated, expedient: it is for your profit and advantage. This then is that, which our Saviour asserts; and that with the earnestnesse before mentioned, desiring to convince his sorrowfull followers of the truth of it; namely, that his departure which they so much feared, and were troubled to think of, would turne to their profit and advantage.
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