THE ENDLESS CREATION
"World without end." This refers to the endless creation of the Almighty. Particular worlds will always begin and end, as do cabbages and kings; but creation itself, the necessity of God's manifesting Himself in time and space, will never end. If creation could end, then God would end: as this is unthinkable, it follows that (page 186)"world without end," or, worlds without end, are necessary to the expression of the Spirit.
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put on the new man,
Which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another.
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