An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Now my brethren, all this I have done to that end, that your hearts may be gained unto God; And what ¹wilt thou do now? Wilt not thou now love the Lord thy God? shall not all this love of God to thee in Christ constrain thee? The love of Christ constrains me, saith the Apostle. Oh! love the Lord, all ye Saints; if the Lord hath ²thus loved you, love ye the Lord all you his Saints. Then God is Love himself, he is the Element of Love; And whither should love go but up to the Element? Air it desires to be in its proper place; and Earth will descend to ³its proper place: the proper place of Love, is God, God is (as it were) the Element of Love, for so the Scripture saith, God is Love: And he that dwells in God, dwells in love. ⁴Oh labour to be rooted and stablished in love. in Ephes. 3. 17. Being rooted and stablished in love, you may be able to comprehend ⁵with all Saints, what is the length, and breadth, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. Being rooted in love, thereby ye come to comprehend with all Saints, the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, ⟨p. 86⟩which passeth knowledge. It is not the strength of natural parts, Learning doth not so much teach us what the length, and height, and depth of the love of Christ is, as Love, get but your hearts rooted in Love, and you will come to understand the glorious things of the Gospel in another manner than ever you did. And mark what follows: That you might be filled with all the fullness of God. Had ⁶we not such an expression in Scripture, we should not dare to make use of it; What, for a poor creature to be filled with God, to be filled with the fullness of God, to be filled with all the fullness of God! This is the reason why Christians are so scant in their obedience, and empty in their spirits, because they are not acquainted with