"The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences."
— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
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Date
1784, 1804
Metaphor
"The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences."
Metaphor in Context
[...] The apostle desires that the Ephesians might not faint at the tribulation which he endured; signifying that God did not set the sufferings of his servants before them with a view to discourage but to embolden them, and strengthen their faith; therefore they ought rather to glory in than be dismayed at them, ver. 13. The apostle begins praying in the middle of this epistle, and addresses the Father of Christ, of whom all the elect angels, and all the elect of the human race, called the family of heaven and earth, are named, ver. 15. The blessing that the apostle craves of God is, that the Ephesians might be strengthened by his Spirit's might in the inner man. By the inner man he means the whole work of grace which is in every renewed soul, and is called the new, or the inner man, as corruption and pollution are called the old man. It is as though the apostle had said, the grace and Spirit of God, which hath humbled and inclined your wills to chuse Christ, in subordination to the will of God, has also appointed Christ to be your everlasting portion. And, as the apostle took it for granted that humbling grace had subdued their wills, and purifying grace had renewed them in the spirit of their minds, so likewise he judged that the love of God had influenced their affections, and kindled an intense desire after the enjoyment of Christ Jesus. The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences.
(pp. 4-5)
(pp. 4-5)
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Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1784, 1787, 1790).
See A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love. From Ephesians III. 18,19. By Wiliam Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street, Cavendish-Square, and Author of the Spiritual Sea-Voyage-The Arminian Skeleton-The Naked Bow of God-The Poor Christian’s Last Will and Testament-The Divine Poem on a Spiritual Birth-God the Guardian of the Poor, and the Bank of Faith-And the Kingdom of Heaven Taken by Prayer. (London: Printed by J. Rozea, No. 91, Wardour-Street, Soho: to be sold at Providence Chapel; at Mr. Baker’s, No. 226, Oxford-Street; at Mr. Byrchmore’s, No. 63, the Corner of Wells-Street, Margaret-Street; and at Mr. Stevenson’s, Grocer, Duke-Street, Corner of Henrietta-Street, 1784). <Link to ESTC
Text from A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love, 3rd ed. (London: Printed for E. Huntington, 1804). <Link to Google Books>
See A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love. From Ephesians III. 18,19. By Wiliam Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street, Cavendish-Square, and Author of the Spiritual Sea-Voyage-The Arminian Skeleton-The Naked Bow of God-The Poor Christian’s Last Will and Testament-The Divine Poem on a Spiritual Birth-God the Guardian of the Poor, and the Bank of Faith-And the Kingdom of Heaven Taken by Prayer. (London: Printed by J. Rozea, No. 91, Wardour-Street, Soho: to be sold at Providence Chapel; at Mr. Baker’s, No. 226, Oxford-Street; at Mr. Byrchmore’s, No. 63, the Corner of Wells-Street, Margaret-Street; and at Mr. Stevenson’s, Grocer, Duke-Street, Corner of Henrietta-Street, 1784). <Link to ESTC
Text from A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love, 3rd ed. (London: Printed for E. Huntington, 1804). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
04/24/2014
