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All Loves Excelling (John Bunyan) (#24)
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All Loves Excelling is John Bunyan’s sermon on Ephesians 3:17-18, ‘That ye may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.’
It was first titled The Saints’ Knowledge of Christ’s Love’ and is worthy of being ranked alongside Sibbes and deals with a much neglected topic.Â
On the one hand, experiences of the Spirit are being claimed from which the glory of the redeemer and the wonder of his love are quite absent, while on the other, an almost total attention to the understanding and practicing of scripture truth is having the effect of marginalizing the experiential element in true, spiritual knowledge.
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All Loves Excelling
All Loves Excelling is John Bunyn’s sermon on Ephesians 3:17-18, ‘That ye may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.’
It was first titled The Saints’ Knowledge of Christ’s Love’ and is worthy of being ranked alongside Sibbes and deals with a much neglected topic.Â
On the one hand, experiences of the Spirit are being claimed from which the glory of the redeemer and the wonder of his love are quite absent, while on the other, an almost total attention to the understanding and practicing of scripture truth is having the effect of marginalizing the experiential element in true, spiritual knowledge.
Bunyan’s description of Christ’s love to believers and how they ought to know it, cuts in both the above-mentioned directions. From some 440 Bible references he shows how knowing Christ’s love is the message of Scripture and also the essence of heaven, partly possessed and expressed on earth. Those who know it are rich beyond measure and they are the people who ‘sweeten the churches and bring glory to God and to religion’.
Table of Contents
| Publishers’ Foreword | ix | |
| Part One | ||
| DESCRIBING THE INEXPRESSIBLE | ||
| Ephesians 3:18, 19 in context | ||
| The verses – the terms of measurement contained in them – the reason for their use – the fulness implied in them. | 3 | |
| The Breadth of Christ’s Love | 8 | |
| The Length of Christ’s Love | 12 | |
| The Depth of Christ’s Love | 15 | |
| The Height of Christ’s Love | 20 | |
| Part Two | ||
| DESIRING THE INCOMPARABLE | ||
| Praying for an Ability | ||
| Needed because of the weakness of grace and human infirmity – also the mysterious nature of God’s dealings | 31 | |
| Praying for an Understanding | ||
| A mark of a gospel minister – an indication of the blessings available for the saints | 36 | |
| Praying for a Knowledge | ||
| Of Christ’s own love and its unsearchable greatness | 46 | |
| Part Three | ||
| OBTAINING THE UNSURPASSABLE | ||
| Knowing the Nature of Christ’s Love | ||
| It is free – divine – heavenly – everlasting | 81 | |
| Knowing the Degrees of Christ’s Love | ||
| He became incarnate – stooped lower than the rank of angels – persevering with sinners | 88 | |
| Knowing the Mystery of Christ’s Love | ||
| It is best known as something that is beyond being fully known | 98 | |
| Part Four | ||
| USES AND COUNSELS | ||
| See the greatness of God’s good will to believers | 111 | |
| Its message to believers and ways to comply | 112 | |
| Its message to unbelievers | 124 | |
| Appendix-The Analysis of the Treatise | 125 |