All Loves Excelling
by John Bunyan
A close exposition of Ephesians 3:18-19, in which John Bunyan urges believers to grasp the breadth, length, depth, and height of Christ's love, a love that finally passes knowledge. Originally titled The Saints' Knowledge of Christ's Love, it argues that no affliction, sin, or distance can outrun a mercy larger than all of them, showing that assurance rests not on the believer's worthiness but on the immeasurable love of God in Christ.
Based on The Saints' Knowledge of Christ's Love (1692), by John Bunyan
From the book
In John Bunyan's own words
“There is nothing more helpful, succouring, or comfortable to a Christian while in a state of trial and temptation, than to know that there is a breadth to answer a breadth, a length to answer a length, a depth to answer a depth, and a height to answer a height.”
“Truths are often delivered to us like wheat in full ears, to the end we should rub them out before we eat them, and take pains about them before we have the comfort of them.”
“God has a long arm, and he can reach a great way further than we can conceive he can.”
