“Indeed, I thought it impossible that I would ever attain so much goodness of heart as to thank God that He had made me a human being. Man, indeed, of all creatures in the visible world, is the most noble by creation, but by sin he had made himself the most ignoble. The beasts, birds, fishes, and the rest – I blessed their condition, for they did not have a sinful nature. They were not offensive to the wrath of God. They were not going to go to hell fire after death. I could therefore have rejoiced if my condition had been as any of theirs.
I continued in this [kind of thinking] for a great while, but when I thought I would find comfort, I heard someone preach a sermon upon those words in Song of Solomon 4:1: “How beautiful you are,
my darling, how beautiful you are!” But at that time he made these two words,
My darling, his main subject matter, and after he had explained the text a little, he preached from these points:
1, Christ loves the church and so loves every saved soul, even when seemingly loveless.
2.
Christ loves without a cause. 3. Christ loves when hated by the world.
4. Christ loves when we are under temptation and under desertion.
5.
Christ loves from first to last.”
Excerpt From
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan
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