Love for evermore

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Henry Venn wrote to his daughters, Jane and Kitty:

Nothing will satisfy me, but your living with me, with all the spirits of the just made perfect! Be assured, that you ought to resist all those fears which cast you down. God is love to all His praying people, who allow themselves in no evil way. He is love to you--and only love--and love for evermore. Have you any doubt that I should give you heaven, and eternal glory, if I had it in my gift? "Oh no!" you both immediately reply.--If I then, being evil, know how to give good things unto my children, how much more shall God, your Heavenly Father (repeat the sweet name!) give unto you that eternal inheritance? Watch, therefore, and pray against hard thoughts of God; as if He were austere, and waiting for our frailties, to punish them; where He is a God delighting to pardon. He hath loved you with an everlasting love; and therefore with loving-kindness hath He withdrawn your hearts from all the idols which young persons worship, till they are divinely changed.

The Letters of Henry Venn (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1993), 375.
 
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