A53713:946
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.
Then is Christ magnified and glorified in their hearts: then they know what a Saviour and Redeemer he is. A soul doth never glorify or honour Christ upon a discovery, or sense of the Eternal Redemption he hath purchased for him, but it is in him a peculiar Effect of the Holy Ghost as our Comforter. No man can say, that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 12. 3.
Then is Christ magnified and glorified in their hearts: then they know what a Saviour and Redeemer he is. A soule doth never glorify or honour Christ upon a discovery, or sense of the Eternall Redemption he hath purchased for him, but it is in him a peculiar Effect of the Holy Ghost as our Comforter. No man can say, that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 12. 3.
3. He sheds abroad the Love of God in our hearts, Rom. 5. 5. That §. 8 it is the Love of God to us, not our Love to God, which is here intended, the context is so clear, as nothing can be added thereunto: now the Love of God is either of Ordination or of Acceptation: The love of his purpose to do us good, or the Love of Acceptation, and approbation with him, both these are called the Love of God frequently in Scripture, as I have declared. Now how can these be shed abroad in our hearts? not in themselves, but in a sense of them; in a spiritual apprehension of them; [Greek or Hebrew], is shed abroad, the same word that is used concerning the Comforter being given us, Titus 2. 6. God sheds him abundantly, or powers him on us; so He sheds abroad, or pours out the Love of God in our hearts. Not to insist on the expression, which is Metaphorical; the business is, that the Comforter gives a sweet and plentiful Evidence and persuasion of the Love of God to us, such as the soul is taken, delighted, satiated withal. This is his work, and he doth it effectually. To give a poor sinful soul a comfortable persuasion, affecting it throughout, in all its faculties and affections, that God in Jesus Christ loves him, delights in him, is well pleased with him, hath thoughts of tenderness and kindness towards him; to give, I say, a soul an overflowing sense hereof, is an unexpressible mercy.