A53713:985
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.
Consolation is the first of these. The Disciples walked in the fear of the Lord, and in the Consolation of the Holy Ghost, Acts 9, 31. [Greek or Hebrew]. §. 2 He is [Greek or Hebrew], and he gives [Greek or Hebrew], from his work towards us, and in us, we have Comfort and Consolation. This is the first general consequent of his dispensation and work. When ever there is mention made of Comfort and Consolation in the Scripture given to the Saints, (as there is most frequently,) it is the proper consequent of the work of the Holy Ghost towards them. Comfort or Consolation in general, is the setting and composing of the Soul in rest and contentedness, in the middest of, or from troubles, by the consideration, or presence, of some good wherein it is interested, outweighing the Evil, trouble, or perplexity that it hath to wrestle withal. Where mention is made of Comfort and Consolation properly so called, there is relation to trouble or perplexity; so the Apostle, 1 Cor. 1. 5, 6. As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our Consolation also aboundeth by Christ. Suffering and Consolation are opposed; the latter being a relief against the former; so are all the promises of Comfort, and all the expressions of it in the Old and New Testament, still proposed as reliefs against Trouble.
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