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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.
Thirdly, The fullness of holiness of Grace, of all perfections that are in God, are unlimited, boundless, and infinite: God is a Sea § 3 without a Shore; an Ocean of Grace without a Bottom: The fullness of Believers is circumscribed within the bounds and limits of their narrow, and finite Beings: And this finiteness of Nature will for ever cleave to the Saints, when they shall be enlarged in their Souls to the utmost capacity. Mortal shall put on Mortality; but finite shall never put on Infiniteness; Corruptible shall put on Incorruption; but our measured Natures shall never put on Immensity.
Thirdly, The fulness of holiness of Grace, of all perfections that are in God, are unlimited, boundless, and infinite: God is a Sea § 3 without a Shoar; an Ocean of Grace without a Bottom: The fulness of Believers is circumscribed within the bounds and limits of their narrow, and finite Beings: And this finiteness of Nature will for ever cleave to the Saints, when they shall be enlarged in their Souls to the utmost capacity. Mortal shall put on Mortality; but finite shall never put on Infiniteness; Corruptible shall put on Incorruption; but our measured Natures shall never put on Immensity.
Fourthly, And hence the fullness of God is inexhaustible. As all the § 4 lesser Stars replenish their Urns with light from the Sun, and yet he's never the less full of light. Thus God is called the Father of lights, Jam. 1.17. by which some think is meant the Father of Spirits, who, as so many Lamps are lighted up from the Sun; or else the Father of all Grace, Comfort, Peace, each of which may be termed Light. Now when all the Saints in Earth, all the Angels in Heaven have filled up their Vessels from this Fountain, yet he is still the same infinitely blessed all-full God.
Fourthly, And hence the fulness of God is inexhaustible. As all the § 4 lesser Stars replenish their Urns with light from the Sun, and yet he's never the less full of light. Thus God is called the Father of lights,