Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

We are taught to distinguish between the measure of a Man and the measure of God: All bodies have but three dimensions, Rev. 21.17. He measured the City with a Reed, twelve thousand furlongs; the length, the breadth, the height were equal, according to the measure of a Man; but in the measuring Spiritual, Heavenly things, such as are the Love of God, and of Christ, there's one dimension more: So we have it in that sublime discourse of Zophar, Job 11.7, 8, 9. Canst thou by searching find out God, canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? It is as high as Heaven, what canst thou do? Deeper then Hell, what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer then the Earth, and broader then the Sea. And thus we are taught modesty, and not to limit God, and his purposes of Love by our narrow conceptions, Isa. 55.8. My thoughts are not your thoughts, for as the Heavens are higher then the Earth, so are my thoughts then your thoughts, saith the Lord.

And 1. for the Breadth of the Love of Christ; It reaches Jews, and Gentiles, it extends to all ranks of Men, high and low, rich and poor: it reaches all the cases of Men's Souls; the Tempted, Deserted, the Backslider, and Persecutor; it reaches the bruised Reed, the smoking Flax; it extends to the pardon of all sins truly repented of: so that we may say that his promises, which are the vehicles of Truth and Love, are exceeding broad, as well as his Precepts, which are the indications of his Authority, and Power: The Love of Christ is wider than Mans will, Rom. 10.21. All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people: Its wider than Mans power, for John 6.44. No Man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. And yet vers. 37. All that the Father has given me shall come unto me. It is wider than all our wants, and necessities; there's more bread in his house, than there are hungry Souls to eat; more mansions in Heaven than there are Souls to fill; its wider than our capacities, and we may sooner enter into our Masters joy,