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The Love Of God - With Recommendatory Remarks (1865) (Paperback)
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The Love Of God - With Recommendatory Remarks (1865) (Paperback)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
GOD'S LOVE SOVEREIGN. OD is love." What a blessed declaration for
you, dear reader, for me, and all who are truly sorry for sin, all
who are conscious of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and of the
justice, holiness, and purity of God no sound more sweet, no
thought more precious to the believer than this. " God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John iii.
16). God loves us if we love Jesus. He will love us to the end.
From the bed of death he will transport us home to a sinless
heaven; and after our tears, and trials, and conflicts, it shall be
told, amid the hallelujahs of the upper sanctuary, " These are they
which have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of
the Lamb." Let us pause for a moment, and think of the love of
Christ. What has it done 1 It brought him from heaven; it bore him
through a life of sorrows; it nailed him to the cross; and it has
secured eternal happiness for all who believe in him to the saving
of their souls. The love of God in Christ is free and sovereign.
The love of God was infinitely free and sovereign; it was from the
beginning one of the promptings of his own nature. If we look for
the cause of it in man, we shall look in vain: there was nothing in
the lost race of sinners to furnish any claim to his favour:
punishment was justly due, and most righteously called for by man's
transgression and disobedience. Man's sin was so great that God
would have been righteous if he had inflicted the most severe
chastisement upon the whole fallen race; the glories of the Godhead
would have been for ever untarnished; not an angel in heaven would
have wondered, after seeing the dreadful rebellion of this world,
if God had tu...
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