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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.
Come we now to the second part of the Text, viz. the Apostles Prayer, for Grace the End: That ye might be filled with all the fullness of God, wherein we meet with a second [Greek or Hebrew], or something that implies a contradiction in appearance.
Come we now to the second part of the Text, viz. the Apostles Prayer, for Grace the End: That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God, wherein we meet with a second 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or something that implies a contradiction in appearance.
The Apostle prays that the Ephesians might, and certainly we ought to add our Prayers to his, that we may; and to second our Prayers with endeavours, that God would fill us with all his fullness: And yet we are here aground again, To be filled with Gods fullness? With all his fullness, seems rather the object of our Despair, than of our Prayer; 'tis that which startles Faith, discourages Hope, which supersedes Prayer and Endeavour; for how can our finite grasp his Infinite? Our narrow vessel comprehend the Sea of his Divine perfections? We can no more comprehend the incomprehensible of God, than we can apprehend the unapprehensible Love of Christ: Our hearts must needs be narrow, because our minds are so; we can see but little, we can love no more than we can see: what the Eye cannot behold, the Hand cannot hold.
The Apostle prays that the Ephesians might, and certainly we ought to add our Prayers to his, that we may; and to second our Prayers with endeavours, that God would fill us with all his fulness: And yet we are here aground again, To be filled with Gods fulness? With all his fulness, seems rather the object of our Despair, than of our Prayer; 'tis that which startles Faith, discourages Hope, which supersedes Prayer and Endeavour; for how can our finite grasp his Infinite? Our narrow vessel comprehend the Sea of his Divine perfections? We can no more comprehend the incomprehensible of God, than we can apprehend the unapprehensible Love of Christ: Our hearts must needs be narrow, because our minds are so; we can see but little, we can love no more than we can see: what the Eye cannot behold, the Hand cannot hold.