| John Wesley - Biography - 1781 - 720 pages
...extenfive. And yet fuch is his goodnefs, that to us it is no larger than the prefent capacity of the foul. O the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of God in Chrift Jefus ! How few there are that live up to the light? Yet bleflcd be God, fome do. And... | |
| James Kershaw - 1797 - 306 pages
...glorious iffue of all things — exhibit fuch a difplay of divine grace and philantropy, as nothing but the length, and breadth, and depth, and height, of the Love of Chrift'caii equal. This plan will point out a happy Reftoration from the ruins of the world of mankind,... | |
| 1803 - 818 pages
...and tone of Christian feeling-;. Seeing something of the deplorable slate of man by nature, and of the length and breadth and depth and height of the love of Christ, they not unnaturally conclude, that the affections of the Christian should be proportionate... | |
| John Venn - Sermons - 1818 - 424 pages
...disciples, " being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge." The "love of Christ" to his church — that love, of which many in... | |
| Abigail Eames - Baptists - 1826 - 74 pages
...sincere determination to be a Christian ; but when I consider how much this implies, and meditate on the length and breadth, and depth and height, of the love of God, I am ashamed of my performances, and am sorry I have not lived more to the glory of Him who called... | |
| 1852 - 1174 pages
...abounding fulness that is in Christ Jesus — and leading him dailv more and more experimentally into the " length and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of God, which passeth knowledge ;" that he may come forth before the Church, and give out that which he... | |
| Irish pulpit - 1831 - 372 pages
...by diligent and fervent prayer, that so we might be enabled to comprehend with all saints, what " is the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge" Having now endeavoured to give you a faint idea of the Apostle's meaning... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 684 pages
...freeness, its fulness, its suitableness, how little is seen ! and how far are we from " comprehending the length and breadth, and depth and height of the love of Christ " contained in it ! How few amongst us have any just views of " the glory of God in the face... | |
| rev. w. thistlethwaite - 1837 - 964 pages
...the gospel." They have therefore to " declare all the counsel of God," to "make all men see what is the length and breadth, and depth and height of the love of Christ," and to set forth the gracious operations and influences of the Holy Ghost. It is for them... | |
| Baptists - 1839 - 656 pages
...conform outwardly to the precepts of the gospel. She comprehended, with the first Christian martyrs, the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of Jesus. This volume may be made eminently advantageous to the foreign missionary cause. It erects a high, yet... | |
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