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A94069	The saints communion with God, and Gods communion with them in ordinances. As it was delivered in severall sermons / by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. William Strong, late minister at Westminster.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1655 (1655)	Wing S6006; Thomason E1693_2; ESTC R209425	55,425	233

other communions in the world but this is above them all the communion that the Saints have with God compared with other Communions 't is as Saul among the people that was higher by the head and shoulders then the rest of them 't is as the Sunne compar'd with the planets far larger and far more glorious then any one of them nay then all of them you that take up the communion without God below God besides God nay it may be in some things against God know this that it is much inferiour to the Communion that the Saints have with God Cant. 1.2 Let him kisse me with with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better then wine It was the saying of a precious Saint That one houres communion with God was more worth then the whole world and indeede the Saints are able to set to their seale that this is true will you see them doing of it Psal 84.10 For a day in thy Court is better then a thousand I had rather bee a doore-keeper in the house of God then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse One daies communion with God is more worth then all the communion you have in this world You that are rocked in the cradle of Creatures and take the creame of them that have all the bosoms of created Excellencies to receive from and to communicate your selves too unto alas ther 's more sweetnesse tasted in the injoyment of the least part of God then in the greatest part of the world Are not waters much more pleasant in their springs then in their streames the Saints and people of God they drinke at the fountaines head when they goe to God and take in all at the first hand the creatures milke out no sweetnesse but when God fills their brests The communion that the Saints have with God is Superlative and transcendent in a six-fold respect 1. The dignity excellencie of all communion is according to the persons with whom we communicate 1 Joh. 1.3 That which we have seene and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us why with whom is your fellowship Our fellowship is with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ The fellowship that the Saints have is with all the Persons in the Trinity In this communion there are these two things First the persons dignifie the communion Secondly the communion dignifies the Persons that enjoyes it For a Beggar to have communion with a King is a very high priviledge but nothing compared with the Saints enjoying communion with God Ordinary communion with extraordinary persons raiseth it to a great height 2. Our communion with God must needs be a superlative communion Why because it is the foundation on which all other fellowships are laid When we brake with God all creatures brake with us when man fell from his holinesse he fell from his happiness when he fell from his Image he fell from his excellency The creatures stood upon the same termes with us as we stood with God and by falling from God all creatures fell from us There were two things that we lost in relation to the creature 1. Our dominion over them 2. Our communion with them All men that live in their naturall state have no reall communion with the creature all creatures are become enemies to them since they themselves became enemies to God creatures had no longer their commission to be obedient to us then we were obedient to God I but observe now when once we are restored to God and brought into communion with heaven all the creatures are restored to us when once we our selves are brought to God Hos 2.19 unto 22. I will betroth thee unto me for ever c. and then I will hear the heavens and the heavens shall hear the earth and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oyle and they shall hear Jezreel There is a five fold communion that is bottomed upon our communion with God 1. The communion that the Saints have with the Angels is all bottomed upon the communion they have with Christ 2. The communion that the Saints of God have one with another Saints should never have had communion with Saints if they had not had communion with God 1 John 1.3 These things write wee unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 3. The communion of the Church of the Jewes with the Gentiles that 's laid in their communion with God 4. The communion the glorious Saints have in heaven with the glorious Saints on earth that 's bottomed upon their communion with God Heb. 12.22 23. 5. The communion that we have with all the creatures that 's bottomed upon our communion with Christ 3. This must needs bee the most superlative communion which is made between God the Father and Jesus Christ and all the Saints why because when once it begins it never ends perpetuity adds an excellency to it Things that are evill are much more evill by how much longer their continuance are So it is in things that are good they are much better by their continuance Some interpositions there may bee of a Saints communion sometimes but no dissipation of it The interruptions that the communion of the Saints meet withall are but as clouds before the Sun that quickly make their departures again when it shines forth upon them Other communions often end as soone as ever they begin they are lost as soone as ever they are found they are taken out of our hands as soone as ever they are gotten into our hands friends quickly die and leave us behind them or it may bee wee our selves dye and leave our friends behinde us and so the knot of communion is untied They are not long liv'd that have the longest life But a Saint in communion would never attaine his end if his communion should ever come to an end Such as the foundation is such is the building that 's laid upon it the foundation of all communion is laid in love and love is laid from everlasting to everlasting God must first cease to let out his affections to the Saints before ever he can cease in communion with them 4. It must needs be the highest communion because it is the open dore to all a Saints blessednesse so you have it in the Text I will meet them and bless them What a blessing did Jacob receive when the Angell wrestled with him all the night But Jacobs wrestling goes before his blessing Our communion makes way for our blessednesse there are no favours but come in through the gates of communion 5. It must needs be the highest communion because all other commnnions are but dark shadowes and resemblances of it the uttermost that all Communions among all the creatures amounts to is but a resemblance and a dark shadow of this communion with God 'T is resembled by the