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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.
From this Rise of all our Consolation, are those descriptions §. 4 which we have of it in the Scripture, from its properties and adjuncts: As first, it is abiding, thence it is called everlasting consolation, 2 Thes. 2. 16. God our Father, which hath loved us, & given us everlasting consolation; that is, Comfort, that vanisheth not; and that because it riseth from everlasting things. There may be some perishing Comfort given for a little season, by perishing things: but abiding consolation, which we have by the Holy Ghost, is from things everlasting. Everlasting Love, eternal Redemption, an everlasting inheritance.
From this Rise of all our Consolation, are those descriptions §. 4 which we have of it in the Scripture, from its properties and adjuncts: As first, it is abiding, thence it is called everlasting consolation, 2 Thes. 2. 16. God our Father, which hath loved us, & given us everlasting consolation; that is, Comfort, that vanisheth not; and that because it riseth from everlasting things. There may be some perishing Comfort given for a little season, by perishing things: but abiding consolation, which we have by the Holy Ghost, is from things everlasting. Everlasting Love, eternall Redemption, an everlasting inheritance.
2. Strong. Heb. 6. 18. That the heirs of the Promise should receive strong Consolation. As Strong opposition lies sometimes against us, and trouble, whose bands are strong, so is our consolation strong; it abounds, and is unconquerable. [Greek or Hebrew]: it is such, as will make its way through all opposition, it confirms, corroborates,, and strengthens the heart under any evil, it fortifies the soul, and makes it able cheerfully to undergo any thing that it is called unto, and that because it is from him who is strong.