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Heavenly merchandiseHeavenly merchandize
Heavenly merchandise; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it dissuaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]Heavenly merchandize; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it disswaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]
printed by Samuel Green, 1686
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2. Your Reason is too narrow to comprehend it. Truth is a Sea unnavigable, a gulf that will not be fathomed by us; the length and breadth, height, and depth of it pass our knowledge; Job. 11. 8, 9. It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell what canst thou know? the measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the Sea. Our Understanding will soon be Non-plust in these contemplations; for Faith it self is rapt into the transports of an astonishing admiration, Paul that had been admitted to ⟨p. 108⟩take a view of the glories of the Third Heaven, yet here he stands upon the brinks, and cries out, Oh the Depth! Rom. 11. 33. If our Saviour Christ doth but discourse with Nicodemus about the A B C of Christianity, (the Doctrine of Regeneration) this great Doctor and Master in Israel is put to a nonplus, and demands how can these things be, Joh. 3. 9. Truths light is truly dazzling, and the eyes of our Understandings are very weak and sore. Truth is Immense, and our Reason is Finite; and however opiniated we may be of our selves, and proudly presumptuous of our large reaches, yet it is certain, that we may as soon comprise the Ocean in an Egg shell, as comprehend all Sacred Truths in our Reason But,
2. Your Reason is too narrow to comprehend it. Truth is a Sea unnavigable, a gulf that will not be fathomed by us; the length and breadth, height, and depth of it pass our knowledge; Job. 11. 8, 9. It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell what canst thou know? the measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the Sea. Our Understanding will soon be Non-plust in these contemplations; for Faith it self is rapt into the transports of an astonishing admiration, Paul that had been admitted to ⟨p. 108⟩take a view of the glories of the Third Heaven, yet here he stands upon the brinks, and cries out, Oh the Depth!