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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.
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1. The Love of God is a Love of Bounty, our Love unto him is a Love of Duty.
1. The Love of the Father is a Love of Bounty, a descending Love. Such a Love as carries him out to do good things to us, great things for us. His love lies at the Bottom of all dispensations towards us: and we scarce any where find any mention of it, but it is held out as the cause and Fountain of some free gift, flowing from it. eHe loves us & sends his Son to dye for us; He loves us, and blesseth us with all spiritual blessings. Loving is choosing Rom. 9. 11, 12. He loves us and chastiseth us; fA Love Like that of the Heavens to the Earth, when being full of rain, they power forth showers to make it fruitful; As the Sea communicates his waters to the Rivers; by the way of Bounty, out of its own fullness: they return unto it only what they receive from it. It is the love of a Spring, of a Fountain, always Communicating. gA love from whence proceeds every thing that is lovely in its object. It infuseth into, and creates Goodness in the persons beloved; and this answers the description of love given by the Philosopher: To love saith he, [Greek or Hebrew]. He that loves, works out good to them he loveth, as he is able. Gods power and will are commensurate. What he willeth he worketh
1. The Love of the Father is a Love of Bounty, a descending Love. Such a Love as carryes him out to doe good things to us, great things for us. His love lys at the Bottome of all dispensations towards us: and we scarse any where find any mention of it, but it is held out as the cause and Fountaine of some free gift, flowing from it.