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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
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.
A suitable discourse of the enjoyment of God in Heaven, would overwhelm us while we are on Earth. Should all the wits in the world, men of the choicest parts: and all those of whom the world is not worthy, men of the ⟨p. 18⟩highest graces, join together in a description of the enjoyment of God; when they have said their utmost, if the whole space to the Firmament were filled with sand, and the space above the Firmament were filled with water, and we had the number of all those sands, and of all those drops: multiply the description by every single sand, and every single drop, and then let every single sand, and every single drop be multiplied by the whole number of both, yet this would fall short, infinitely, superinfinitely short of a perfect description, what it is to enjoy God in glory. For there will be,
A suitable discourse of the enjoyment of God in Heaven, would overwhelme us while we are on Earth. Should all the wits in the world, men of the choicest parts: and all those of whom the world is not worthy, men of the ⟨p. 18⟩highest graces, joyne together in a description of the enjoyment of God; when they have said their utmost, if the whole space to the Firmament were filled with sand, and the space above the Firmament were filled with water, and we had the number of all those sands, and of all those drops: multiply the description by every single sand, and every single drop, and then let every single sand, and every single drop be multiplied by the whole number of both, yet this would fall short, infinitely, superinfinitely short of a perfect description, what it is to enjoy God in glory. For there will be,
First, Some shadow of communication of incommunicable Attributes. There are two Attributes of God which we call incommunicable, viz. his infiniteness, and incomprehensibleness.
First, Some shadow of communication of incommunicable Attributes. There are two Attributes of God which we call incommunicable, viz. his infinitenesse, and incomprehensiblenesse.