These three qualifications of the love of Christ make it
exceedingly eminent, and him exceeding desirable. How many millions of
sins, in every one of the elect, every one whereof were enough to condemn
them all, hath this love overcome! what mountains of unbelief doth it
remove! Look upon the conversation of any one saint, consider the frame of
his heart, see the many stains and spots, the defilements and infirmities,
wherewith his life is contaminated, and tell me whether the love that bears
with all this be not to be admired. And is it not the same towards
thousands every day? What streams of grace, purging, pardoning,
quickening, assisting, do flow from it every day! This is our Beloved, O
ye daughters of Jerusalem.