God's Love
(In salvation) God will so show His love to the sinner as at the same time to show His hatred to sin. [ASGTH]
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Three men, asking one another what made them leave sin: one says, I think of the joys of heaven; another, I think of the torments of hell; but the third, I think of the love of God, and that makes me forsake it. How shall I offend the God of love? [TDOR]
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Do we know how our sins provoke God? How they grieve the Holy Ghost? How they weaken our graces? How they spoil our prayers? How they weaken faith? How they tempt Christ to be ashamed of us? And how they hold back good from us? And if we know not every one of these things to the full, how shall we know to the full the love of Christ which saveth us from them all?. [ALE]
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Before we can know this love of Christ, as afore, we must necessarily know the nature of sin, that is, what sin is, what sin is in itself. [ALE]
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Deliverance from Satan’s snares [is] the clearest and the greatest evidence of the soul and heart of God to be towards us. [PRASD]
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Who can tell how many heart-pleasing thoughts Christ had of us before the world began? [ALE]
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We must put a vast difference between love as found in us, and love as found in Christ, and that, both as to the nature, principle, or object of love. [ALE]
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Make this love of God and of Christ thine own, and not another’s… give not over until this love be made thine own until thou find and feel it to run warm in thy heart by the shedding of it abroad there, by the spirit that God hath given thee. [ALE]
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Know thy self, what a vile, horrible, abominable sinner thou art: For thou canst not know the love of Christ before thou knowest the badness of thy nature. [ALE]
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‘Tis unnatural to abuse love, to abuse love is a villainy condemned of all, yea, to abuse love, is the most inexcusable sin of all. It is next to the sin of devils to abuse love, the love of God in Christ. [ALE]