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Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture
Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture wherein believers are assisted in preparing their hearts, and exciting their affections and graces, when they draw nigh to God in that most awful and solemn ordinance of the Lords Supper / by Jo. Flavel ...
London: printed for Jacob Sampson, 1679
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.
Eph. 3. 19. —And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.
THE knowledge of Christ, and of his love is deservedly in this place set down among the desiderata Christianorum, the most desirable enjoyments of Believers in this world. This love of Christ had centred the Apostles heart, he was swallowed up in the meditation and admiration of it, and would have all hearts inflamed and affected with it, as his was.
Some think the Apostle speaks Ecstatically in this place, and know not how to make the parts of his discourse consistent with each other, when he puts them upon endeavours to know that love of Christ, which himself confesses to pass knowledge.
Some think the Apostle speaks Extatically in this place, and know not how to make the parts of his discourse consistent with each other, when he puts them upon endeavours to know that love of Christ, which himself confesses to pass knowledge.
But though his heart was ravished with the love of Christ, yet there is no contradiction or inconsistency in his discourse. He doth earnestly desire for the Ephesians, that they may know the love of Christ, (i. e.) that they might experimentally know his love, which passeth knowledge; that is, as some expound it, all other sorts and kinds of knowledge; yea, and all knowledge of Christ which is not practical and experimental.