So excellent a motive to love

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Hugh Binning (Treatise of Christian Love), Works, p. 526:

It should add an exceeding weight unto it, that we have not only so high a pattern, but so excellent a motive: “God so loved;” and “herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins;” therefore, “If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another,” 1 John 4:9-11. “Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us,” Eph. 5:2. Here are the topics of the most vehement persuasion. There is no invention can afford so constraining a motive, God so loving us, sinful and miserable us, that he gave his only begotten Son, that we might live through him; and Christ so loving us, that he gave himself a sacrifice for sin. O then! who should live to himself, when Christ died for others? And who should not love, when “God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all?” “God commendeth his love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,” Rom. 8:32, and 5:8, and 14:7, 8.
 
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