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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.
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.
1. He Prays for Grace the End. That ye might be filled with all the fulness 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.
2. He Prays for Grace the Mean to compass that End, viz. To know the Love of Christ which passeth knowledge. As we grow up into a greater Measure of the knowledge of the Love of Christ to us, we shall enjoy more of the fullness of God in us.
2. He Prays for Grace the Mean to compass that End, viz. To know the Love of Christ which passeth knowledge. As we grow up into a greater Measure of the knowledge of the Love of Christ to us, we shall enjoy more of the fulness of God in us.
But here we meet, in each of these parts of the Text, with an [Greek or Hebrew] or a seeming contradiction in the Terms. To know the Love of Christ, which passeth knowledge? What is that, but to know what is unknowable? And to be filled with all the fullness of God? What is that, but to comprehend, what is incomprehensible? The narrow vessel of our Heart can no more contain the boundless, and bottomless Ocean of the Divine ⟨image 62⟩fullness, than our weak intellectual Eye can drink in the glorious Light of that knowledge.