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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. OF THE OBLIGATION TO LOVE GOD, ESPECIALLY FOR CHRISTIANS. All that has been said proves most clearly the duty of loving God, and His claim upon our love. How is it with the infidel ? As he knows not God the Son, so is he also ignorant of the Father and the Holy Spirit; and as he gives no glory to the Son, neither does he glorify the Father who sent Him, nor the Holy Spirit, the gift of both. He knows less of God than we do, therefore it is no wonder he should love Him less. One thing, however, he does know; that to Him who created him, he owes himself entirely. But how will it be with me ? for I can plead no ignorance. I know that God made me without any desert of mine, that He satisfies all my wants, comforts me with pity, and governs me with anxious care; and not only so, but I know, besides, that He is my Redeemer, the Author of my eternal salvation, my treasure and my glory. As it is written: With Him is plentiful redemption; By His own blood He entered once into the Holy of Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. He keeps us safe, as it is written: The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled, and their inheritance shall be for ever. He enriches us, as He has said: Good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall they give into your bosom; and elsewhere: The eye hath not seen, O God, what things Thou hast prepared for them that wait for Thee. He fulfils us with glory, as saith the Apostle: We wait for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our body, now vile and abject, and make it like unto His own, which is full of glory. And again: The sufferings of this present time are not to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us; and this present time of this world's affliction (so short...

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