Behold the Love of God!
"Therefore doth M y Father love M e, because I lay down M y life, that I might take it again." -John 10:17 [KJV] Mark, my soul, the precious cause which thy Jesus here assigns for the love of His Father. God the Father not only loves God the Son, as God, one with Him in nature and in all divine perfections; but He loves Him peculiarly because He voluntarily undertook and accomplished by His death the salvation of His people. Now then, my soul, make these two sweet improvements from what Jesus hath here said. First, think what must have been, and now is, the love of thy God and Father to thee and every poor sinner, when He truly loves his dear Son because he became the Saviour of poor sinners. And, secondly, think what love Jesus hath shewn to poor sinners in thus manifesting His mercy in such a way, and how dear they must be to the heart of Jesus, which have made Him dear in the sight of God. My soul, never lose sight of this argument, when thou goest to the mercyseat. ...