Plenitudo fontis, or, Christ's fullness and man's emptiness a sermon / preachedPlenitudo fontis, or, Christ's fulnesse and man's emptinesse a sermon / preached

Saint Augustine in his book De C•vitate De• seems to stand amazed at the Majesty which appears in this first of John, above all other passages of Holy writ. And Calvin saith, he doth in this Chap: Detonare ab alto, giving it the chiefest instance wherein a divine •upendious authority appears beyond all the writing of men Junius saith, that he was uever strucken with an apprehension of the Deity, till he read this first Chapter, affirming it to be the first and chiefest cause of his conversion from Atheism to a sincere embracing of Christianity, you may see it in his life written by himself. And in all this Chapter, I find not a richer and fuller sentence then this which describes to us the fullness of Christ.

SAint Augustine in his booke De C•vitate De• seemes to stand amazed at the Majesty which appeares in this first of Iohn, above all other passages of Holy writ. And Calvine saith, he doth in this Chap: Detonare ab alto, giving it the chiefest instance wherein a divine •upendious authority appeares beyond all the writing of men Iunius saith, that he was uever strucken with an apprehension of the Diety, till he read this first Chapter, affirming it to be the first and chiefest cause of his conversion from Atheisme to a sincere imbracing of Christianity, you may see it in his life written by himselfe. And in all this Chapter, I finde not a richer and fuller sentence then this which describesto us the fullnesse of Christ.

The parts of it are three.

First▪ here is a Fullness attributed to Christ.