Essential, boundless, bottomless, infinite love

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Ralph Erskine (Preventing Love), Sermons 1:423:

The great design of the gospel, gospel ordinances, and sacraments, is to commend the love of God in Christ. The sacrament of the supper is a love-feast; and they that have their senses spiritually exercised therein will find readily all their senses filled with love. What do they hear, but love! What do they see, but love! What do they taste, but love! What do they feel, but love! What do they smell, but love! – It is a sweet account we have of God, [1 John 4] ver. 16: “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.” O happy they that have so learnt the gospel-catechism, from their experience, as to be able to answer to that question, What is God? and to say, “God is love!” He is essential, boundless, bottomless, infinite love. It is true, if we look to him in the glass of the law, we will see him to be all wrath, a consuming fire out of Christ; but look to him in the glass of the gospel and you will see him all love, a God in Christ reconciling the world to himself: and the sight thereof produces love; for, “We love him, because he first loved us.”
 
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