A53713:98
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.
1. The love of the Father unto us is an Antecedent love, and that in two Respects.
1. It is antecedent in Respect of our love: 1 John 4. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us. His love goes before ours. The Father loves the child, when the child knows not the Father; much less loves him. Yea we are by nature [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 1. 30. haters of God: He is in his own nature [Greek or Hebrew]; a lover of men: and surely all mutual love between him and us, must begin on his hand.
1. It is antecedent in Respect of our love: 1 John 4. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us. His love goes before ours. The Father loves the child, when the child knowes not the Father; much lesse loves him. Yea we are by nature 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rom. 1. 30. haters of God: He is in his own nature 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; a lover of men: and surely all mutuall love between him and us, must begin on his hand.
2. In respect of all other Causes of love whatever. It goes not only before our Love, but also any thing in us, that is klovely.