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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
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.
Ephes. III. 19. And to know the Love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the Fullness of God. [Greek or Hebrew].
Ephes. III. 19. And to know the Love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the Fulness of God. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
THESE words are a considerable part of that excellent Prayer put up to God by the Apostle, for his beloved Ephesians: from vers. 16. to the end. And indeed Prayer was his tried Engine by which he always could bring down supplies of Grace, from the God of all Grace, for his own, and the Souls of others: In this Branch of it, you will easily observe, he prays for Grace the End, and Grace the Mean to reach that End.
THESE words are a considerable part of that excellent Prayer put up to God by the Apostle, for his beloved Ephesians: from vers. 16. to the end. And indeed Prayer was his tryed Engine by which he always could bring down supplies of Grace, from the God of all Grace, for his own, and the Souls of others: In this Branch of it, you will easily observe, he prays for Grace the End, and Grace the Mean to reach that End.
1. He Prays for Grace the End. That ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. This being the utmost of the Souls Perfection, ought to be the height of its Ambition: beyond this we cannot reach, and therefore in the attainment of this we must rest.