A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

The Spirits of just Men are there said to be made perfect. ⟨p. 155⟩Waving the Olympic Metaphor, which is, at most, but the thing signifying: That which is signified, cannot be less than the concurrence of Natural, and Moral Perfection. The perfecting of all our faculties, mind, will, and active power, and of all holy and gracious excellencies, knowledge, wisdom, love, holiness. The Apostle makes the difference be, as that of a Child, and that of a Man, 1 Cor. 13. And would any one that hath a Child he delights in, wish him to be a Child always, and only capable of Childish things? Or is it a reasonable imagination, that by how much we are more capable of action, we shall be the more useless, and have the less to do?

The Spirits of just Men are there said to be made perfect. ⟨p. 155⟩Waving the Olympick Metaphor, which is, at most, but the thing signifying: That which is signified, cannot be less than the concurrence of Natural, and Moral Perfection. The perfecting of all our faculties, mind, will, and active power, and of all holy and gracious excellencies, knowledge, wisdom, love, holiness. The Apostle makes the difference be, as that of a Child, and that of a Man, 1 Cor. 13. And would any one that hath a Child he delights in, wish him to be a Child always, and only capable of Childish things? Or is it a reasonable imagination, that by how much we are more capable of action, we shall be the more useless, and have the less to do?

We may further lastly add, that which is not the least considerable.