Friday, February 25
A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin, ed. Joel Beeke and Mark Jones
(Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2009), 69-70
Great cost and great gladness
Our God being love, and mercy his delight, he would gladly show how well he could love creatures; he was most glad of the greatest opportunity to show it. Therefore he resolves upon this course, to reconcile enemies, whatever the cost — for the more they should cost him, the gladder should they be.
The making of a thousand new friends could not have expressed so much love as the reconciling of one enemy. To love and delight in friends, who had never wronged him, was too narrow, shallow, and slight a way. He had heights, depths, breadth of love (Eph 3:18), which nothing but the depths of our misery could have drawn out.
A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin, ed. Joel Beeke and Mark Jones
(Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2009), 69-70
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