A36320:479
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
3. The Heart of Man can conceive more than the Eye hath seen, or the Ear hath heard; it can imagine all Pebbles to be Pearls, all the Earth to be a silver Heap, the Sea to be liquid Gold, the Air transparent Chrystal, every Star to be a Sun: And if all these were so, they would be but as a Sand to a Mountain, a Beam to the Sun, a Drop to the Ocean, a Grain to a Golden Mine, compared with the things that are prepared for such as love God and Christ, for those things are so great, they cannot be measured, so many, they cannot be numbered, so precious, they cannot be valued, so long and lasting, they will never be ended; they exceed our Faith, they are beyond our Hope, above our Desires, they might be possessed hereafter, but they cannot be comprehended here, because,
3. The Heart of Man can conceive more than the Eye hath seen, or the Ear hath heard; it can imagine all Pebles to be Pearls, all the Earth to be a silver Heap, the Sea to be liquid Gold, the Air transparent Chrystal, every Star to be a Sun: And if all these were so, they would be but as a Sand to a Mountain, a Beam to the Sun, a Drop to the Ocean, a Grain to a Golden Mine, compared with the things that are prepared for such as love God and Christ, for those things are so great, they cannot be measured, so many, they cannot be numbred, so precious, they cannot be valued, so long and lasting, they will never be ended; they exceed our Faith, they are beyond our Hope, above our Desires, they might be possessed hereafter, but they cannot be comprehended here, because,
For Sublimity, they are Incomprehensible, for Transcendency Inexplicable, for Glory Unutterable, for Sweetness Unconceivable, for Sureness Unquestionable, for Fullness Unmeasurable, for Firmness Unmoveable, for Lastingness Unchangeable.
For Sublimity, they are Incomprehensible, for Transcendency Inexplicable, for Glory Ʋnutterable, for Sweetness Ʋnconceiveable, for Sureness Ʋnquestionable, for Fulness Ʋnmeasurable, for Firmness Ʋnmoveable, for Lastingness Ʋnchangeable.