A30576:229
Four useful discourses viz. ... /Four usefull discourses viz. ... /
Four useful discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...Four usefull discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1675
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7. In Him, O the Communion that I have with Him, is more than Life; those lettings out of my Heart to Him, and those lettings out of His Heart again to my Soul: What is it? It's more than a Thousand Lives unto me.
8. In Him I have the Conveyance of all the Good that God the Father Conveys to the Hearts of His Saints, in order to Eternal Life; and therefore, O the Comfort ⟨p. 110⟩and Contentment my Soul hath thereupon.
And then, He is the end of my Life: To what purpose do I live, if it were not in order to Him? For He is the first that God did aim at in all his Works, Ab extra, and therefore Christ is called the First-begotten of all: He was the first in Gods Intention, yea, the Scripture saith in Ephes. 3. 19. All things are by Him, and for Him. Now if Christ be the End of all the Works of God the Father, God in all that ever He aimed at in His Councils from Eternity, He did aim at the setting up of the Honour of Christ, and at His own Honour in Him and by Him: Therefore surely, He is my Life, He is that I aim at, He is the End of my Life.
And then, He is the end of my Life: To what purpose do I live, if it were not in order to Him? For He is the first that God did aim at in all his Works, Ab extra, and therefore Christ is called the First-begotten of all: He was the first in Gods Intention, yea, the Scripture saith in Ephes. 3. 19. All things are by Him, and for Him. Now if Christ be the End of all the Works of God the Father, God in all that ever He aim'd at in His Councils from Eternity, He did aim at the setting up of the Honour of Christ, and at His own Honour in Him and by Him: Therefore surely, He is my Life, He is that I aim at, He is the End of my Life.