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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.
Herein he gives us holy Communion with himself. The soul knows his voice when he speaks: nec hominem sonat. There is something too great in it, to be the Effect of a created power. When the Lord Jesus Christ, at one word stilled the raging of the Sea and Wind, all that were with him, knew there was Divine power at hand: Math. 4. 39. And when the Holy Ghost by one word stills the tumults and storms that are raised in the Soul, giving it an immediate calm and security, it knows his divine power, and rejoices in his presence.
Herein he gives us holy Communion with himselfe. The soule knows his voyce when he speaks: nec hominem sonat. There is something too great in it, to be the Effect of a created power. When the Lord Jesus Christ, at one word stilled the raging of the Sea and Wind, all that were with him, knew there was Divine power at hand: Math. 4. 39. And when the Holy Ghost by one word stills the tumults and stormes that are raised in the Soule, giving it an immediate calme and security, it knows his divine power, and rejoyces in his presence.
5. He seals us. We are sealed by the holy Spirit of promise Eph. §. 11 1. 13. and grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption; chap. 4. 30. I am not very clear in the certain peculiar intendment of this Metaphor, what I am persuaded of the mind of God in it, I shall briefly impart. In a seal two things are Considered,
5. He seales us. We are sealed by the holy Spirit of promise Eph. §. 11 1. 13. and grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption; chap. 4. 30. I am not very clear in the certaine peculiar intendment of this Metaphor, what I am perswaded of the mind of God in it, I shall briefely impart. In a seale two things are Considered,