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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36939	A discovery of glorious love, or, The love of Christ to beleevers opened, in the truth, transcendency, and sweetness thereof together with the necessity that lyes upon every beleever, to strive after the spirituall and experimentall knowledge of it : being the sum of VI sermons preached upon Ephesians 3.19 / by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1655 (1655)	Wing D2677; ESTC R17285	97,378	288

transcendent sith the Apostle saith it passeth knowledge I shall indeavour to open the point and give you the meaning thereof by bringing you to the top of this high hyperbolical expression in three steps or staires First The love of Christ to Beleevers is transcendent it being above expression Those who enjoy Christs love they know not how to expresse it such is the transcendency of the love that it passeth their knowledge how to expresse it in any Language The Scripture sets out the height of things by this that they are unspeakable So when it would heighten and declare the transcendency of that rapture in which Paul was when wrapped up to the third heavens and the glory of that which he then heard it sets it down by this that it was unutterable He heard unspeakable words which may be an Hebraism for things word and thing being in the Hebrew convertible which it was not possible for a man to utter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Hebraeos est verbum res 2 Cor. 12.14 In like manner when the Scripture speaks of the transcendent joy which Beleevers rejoyce withall by beleeving It useth this phrase that it was unspeakable 1 Pet. 1.8 Yee rejoyce with joy unspeakable And it must not be passed by in silence that the joy of which Peter speaks is that which Beleevers have by faith which certainly is founded upon Christs love So that if the joy in the faith of Christs love be unspeakable the love it self is much more For quod efficit tale est magis tale as the Logicians speak i. e. That which makes any thing so or such is much more it self so or such This may be the first step to ascend the height of the expression and to declare the transcendency of Christ love to beleevers It passeth knowledge in this that no man no though he had the tongues of men and Angles knows how to expresse it 2 Christs love is transcendent and may be said to be above knowledge in that it is above apprehension As the Language of Beleevers cannot expresse so neither can their knowledge apprehend the height of their Saviours love Men often can apprehend more than they can expresse when the tongue is silenced the understanding may be comprehensive But now in the love of Christ there is that which poseth and confoundeth the very intelectuals of men and Angels It is so high as that there is no reaching of it so deep as that there is no sounding of it so long as that it exceeds measuring and so broad that there is no comprehending it The most Spiritual Mathematician is not able to commensurate Christs love in all its dimensions It is as possible for that little Crevise of the body the Eye to let in all the light of the Sun as it is for that great eye of the Soul knowledge to let in the lustre of Christs love The Holy Ghost when hee would set out a thing as transcendent he useth this phrase that it is such as cannot be comprehended As now speaking of the great things which God doth it is said they are such as wee cannot comprehend Job 37.5 Without doubt as the operation of the Fathers hand so the expansion of the Sons heart is such as cannot be comprehended In this the Fathers works and the Sons loves do equally transcend that they passe knowledge and are not able to be apprehended 3 Christ bears to beleevers a transcendent love it passeth knowledge in this that it is above conception Fancy can conceive that which Reason cannot comprehend The Understanding being bounded by Reason cannot go beyond its limits and therefore where Reason cannot suggest the Understanding cannot apprehend But now fancy is winged and it will fly It doth as Scaliger speaks Aspernare caeterorum finium praescriptionem It scorneth to be bounded though by Reason it self It flyeth high and will guesse at least at the transcendent height of that which reason cannot reach Yet such my beloved is the love of Christ It is so high so superlatively-transcendent that let fancy loose and let it fly as high as it can it is not able to soare to the top thereof As the understanding going to its utmost bounds So fancy flying beyond all bounds is not able to conceive what is the love of Christ to Beleevers So that now when I say the love which Christ Bears to Beleevers is transcendent and when you read in the text that it passeth knowledge You may take the meaning thus That it is above the expression of the finest Oratory the comprehension of the deepest Theory and the conception of the sublimest Fancy In so much as let Oratory speak Wisdom study Fancy fly yet neither the one nor the other nor all are able to express apprehend or conceive what is the love of Christ to beleevers Indeed the love of Christ is such as heaven it self though it be the state of sight doth not as hereafter we shal shew exalt the Saints so high as to make them able to comprehend that love in the fields whereof they do walk and live It is with the Saints in Heaven as with the Fishes in the Sea they swim up and down the mighty waters but yet they do not cannot comprehend that watry world in which they live In like manner the Saints above though they swim up and down the infinite Ocean of love which is in their Saviours bosom yet they can no more comprehend that vast sea of love in which to eternity they shall bathe and blesse their souls than the little Fish can comprehend the great Sea in which it swims Wherefore ere I proceed further let me premise this That it is not in my thoughts nor dare I presume this neither would I have you expect that by any thing which I shall or can say I shall be able to set out the infiniteness of that love of which we shal treat according to his full Latitude and worth No this I despair of only I desire to let you see some of the glimmering beams of that transcendent love which is in Christs bosome towards beleevers so as that you may wonder at it and set about the exacter study of it And look as a Painter when he intends to draw out the Sea or the World in a Map hee maketh only some little shadows of the Earth and Sea that so the beholder may be inabled to guesse at the vastnesse thereof In like manner I shall draw before you in my Discourse some little shadowy pricks or lines of Christs love that thereby I may help you somewhat to imagine what is that infinite transcendent love which neither Saints nor Angels are able in all its lustre and dimensions to paint out or discover For the proof I shall not need to adde more Scriptures it being clear enough by what the Apostle speaks in this place of Christs love that it is transcendent In the verse before this the Apostle hints that