All Loves Excelling
John Bunyan
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Read All Loves Excelling by John Bunyan — a 1692 Puritan treatise on the breadth, length, depth and height of the love of Christ (Ephesians 3:18–19). UECF.NET Web Edition with contents, search, and bookmarks.
- 16 Chapters
- 29,486 words
- ≈ 227 min
- English
Table of Contents
1of Jesus Christ. A minister's love to his flock is seen in his praying2accrued to Christians by the comprehending of these things: Yea,3his preparations for that work.4love is discovered, and that is his improving of his dying for us. But I5That which was before the world was, is without a beginning, but the6That which is eternal is without end, and how can an endless thing7love is infinite and incomprehensible. Wherefore here is that that8necessarily know the nature of sin, that is, what sin is, what sin is9unacquainted with; it was one of the great things that the prophets10least sin driveth at, and what it would unavoidably run the sinner11things? I will grant that some good souls may have waded a great12begin at his person, for in him dwells all the treasures of wisdom and13may be known, is this: That he should pass by angels and take hold of14it may be known, will be to consider more particularly the way, and15Ephesians, doth not only desire that they may know, but describeth16wont to stop, be set, and beyond which they could not pass. 'Twas