All Three Persons
Seventeenth Century Puritan
Thomas Goodwin............
A man's communion and converse is ... sometimes with the Father, then with the Son, and then with the Holy Ghost; sometimes his heart is drawn out to consider the Father's love in choosing, and then the love of Christ in redeeming, and so the love of the Holy Ghost, that searcheth the deep things of God, and revealeth them to us, and taketh all the pains with us; and so a man goes from one witness to another distinctly. [Assurance] is not a knowledge by way of argument or deduction, whereby we infer that if one Ioveth me then the other loveth me, but it is intuitively, as I may so express it,and we should never be satisfied till all three persons lie level in us, and all make their abode with us, and we sit as it were in the midst of them, while they all manifest their love unto us.
Thomas Goodwin............
A man's communion and converse is ... sometimes with the Father, then with the Son, and then with the Holy Ghost; sometimes his heart is drawn out to consider the Father's love in choosing, and then the love of Christ in redeeming, and so the love of the Holy Ghost, that searcheth the deep things of God, and revealeth them to us, and taketh all the pains with us; and so a man goes from one witness to another distinctly. [Assurance] is not a knowledge by way of argument or deduction, whereby we infer that if one Ioveth me then the other loveth me, but it is intuitively, as I may so express it,and we should never be satisfied till all three persons lie level in us, and all make their abode with us, and we sit as it were in the midst of them, while they all manifest their love unto us.