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Communion with God. in two sermons preached at Paul'sCommunion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's
Communion with God. in two sermons preached at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.
London: printed by Evan Tyler, 1655
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2. The soul enjoys an immediate glorious knowledge of God, Christ, Truth, and what not? 'tis said of Solomon, 1 Kings 4.29. He had wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the Sea-shore. But it may be applied to every soul in Heaven, A greater then Solomon (was upon earth) is here. The Riddles of Grace shall then be opened: Your creeping apprehensions of God shall then be elevated: Your ⟨p. 12⟩distance from God shall then be shortened.
2. The soul enjoyes an immediate glorious knowledge of God, Christ, Truth, and what not? 'tis said of Solomon, 1 Kings 4.29. He had wisedome and understanding exceeding much, and largenesse of heart, even as the sand that is on the Sea-shore. But it may be applied to every soul in Heaven, A greater then Solomon (was upon earth) is here. The Riddles of Grace shall then be opened: Your creeping apprehensions of God shall then be elevated: Your ⟨p. 12⟩distance from God shall then be shortned.
3. That which the soul enjoys there is so great, that if it should come from Heaven to declare it on Earth, neither could that soul express it, nor we understand it. Read a lecture of civil-policy to the wild Indians, and tell them the excellency of a well ordered Kingdom, they cannot understand it, though you speak in their own language: neither can you fully express it, a lecture is too short to contain it. We read of Lazarus, whose soul Christ returned into his body, whom much people of the Jews came to see, purposely to hear stories of the other world; but not a word from him of any such matter. Pauls rapture may satisfy with the reason of it,