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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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5. The enjoyment of all this shall be in God unto eternity. God shall be to the whole man then, what the soul is to the body now: totus in toto, not to inform it; but a person may as soon cease to live, as to live out of God. ⟨p. 17⟩As a fish in the Sea hath a larger space to sport in, then ever it can make use of; but let it swim where she will, she is still in the Sea, and cannot live out of it. So a Saint hath infinitely more in God, than can be comprehended, but yet still he abides in God. Never will the eye be off him: nor the tongue be weary of his praises: never will the thought wander after any other object. There's a passage, 1 Cor. 14.15. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also: He opposeth the spirit to the understanding so affected, as that it cannot distinctly explain what it hath conceived; but it shall be otherwise, when we shall sing the perpetual hallelujahs. And then there's an eternity: in Rev. 5.13, 14. all the Devils in hell shall be forced to roar out blessing, honour, glory, and power unto God; but it is the Saints shall undertake it for ever and ever.
5. The enjoyment of all this shall be in God unto eternity. God shall be to the whole man then, what the soul is to the body now: totus in toto, not to informe it; but a person may as soon cease to live, as to live out of God. ⟨p. 17⟩As a fish in the Sea hath a larger space to sport in, then ever it can make use of; but let it swim where she will, she is still in the Sea, and cannot live out of it. So a Saint hath infinitely more in God, than can be comprehended, but yet still he abides in God. Never will the eye be off him: nor the tongue be weary of his praises: never will the thought wander after any other object. There's a passage, 1 Cor. 14.15. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also: He opposeth the spirit to the understanding so affected, as that it cannot distinctly explain what it hath conceived; but it shall be otherwise, when we shall sing the perpetual hallelujahs. And then there's an eternity: in