June 5

Divine Affections (1)

“God is love.”
— 1 John 4:8

“The law says, Love: it is a righteous demand. But the gospel, Christ Himself, says, "God so loved."”

“No creation, nothing that has ever been seen in this world, could be what the cross was. Creation may shew God's power, but it cannot bring out God's love and truth as the cross does; and therefore it remains everlastingly the wonderful and blessed place of learning, what could be learnt nowhere else, of all that God is.”