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GOD TO BE LOVED FOR HIMSELF

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 4.

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GOD TO BE LOVED FOR HIMSELF.

Love should always be the life of motion. That soul goes true that hath true love to weigh it; and that soul loves truly, that hath a true object to center it. A gracious spirit loves the Lord, not because he does good, but because he is good. I will not weigh that friend's affection that loves a fluent sweetness before an inherent goodness. That soul that loves Christ for himself, though you take away all else, yet there is strength enough in love, to move and constrain the soul. O blessed be that saint, Lord, that is so taken with thy love, that can truly say, Were there neither heaven nor hell, yet sin should be my hell, and holiness my heaven.