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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.
But (1.) that by the powers of the world to come in that place, is intended the joys of Heaven, there is indeed no ground to imagine: they are nowhere so called; nor doth it suitably express the glory that shall be revealed, which we shall be made partakers of. It is doubtless the powerful Ministry of the Ordinances & dispensations of the times of the Gospel (there, called to the Hebrews according their own idiom) the powers or great effectual things of the world to come; that is intended: but
But (1.) that by the powers of the world to come in that place, is intended the joys of Heaven, there is indeed no ground to imagine: they are nowhere so called; nor doth it suitably expresse the glory that shall be revealed, which we shall be made partakers of. It is doubtlesse the powerfull Ministry of the Ordinances & dispensations of the times of the Gospell (there, called to the Hebrews according their own idiome) the powers or greate effectuall things of the world to come; that is intended: but
2. Suppose that by the powers of the world to come the Glory of Heaven is intended; there is a wide difference between taking a vanishing taste of it our selves, and receiving an abiding earnest from God: To take a taste of the things of Heaven, and to ⟨p. 286⟩have them assured of God, as from his Love differ greatly. An Hypocrite may have his thoughts raised to a great deal of Joy and contentment in the consideration of the good things of the Kingdom of God for a season, considering the things in themselves, but the Spirit as he is an Earnest gives us a pledge of them as provided for us in the Love of God and purchase of his Son Jesus Christ. This by the way.
2. Suppose that by the powers of the world to come the Glory of Heaven is intended; there is a wide difference between taking a vanishing tast of it our selves, and receiving an abiding earnest from God: To take a tast of the things of Heaven, and to ⟨p. 286⟩