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The love of Christ is a divine emotion. Were it the most exquisite, profound, and pure that could possibly find a home in the human heart, and yet were created, it would still be but a finite affection: and a mere finite love could not have met the requirements of God’s moral government, by the perfect satisfaction and honoring of which sinful man is saved. Why is it a love that passes knowledge? Why cannot the deep line sound it- the swift wing reach it- the eagle eye pierce it- the eloquent tongue describe it? Why are there depths and heights, lengths and breadths, which distance all thought, imagination, and measurement? Because it is the love of deity. The love of Christ is the love of God. We employ no rhetorical exaggeration, we speak not in hyperbole, but the words of truth and soberness; when we declare, on the authority of revealed truth, Christ to be the eternal and essential Son of God- “God over all, blessed for evermore.” Listen to the argument. “God has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son- the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person.” “Unto the Son He says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.” All the names, attributes, and works predicated of Deity are ascribed to Him, which, were He not God, essential, absolute God, would be the most vicious blasphemy. Hear the voice of prophecy: “His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Do we speak of Creation? “By Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him.” Do we speak of Providence? “By Him all things are held together.” Do we speak of Universal Dominion? “He is Lord of all.” Do we claim for the Scriptures of truth Divine Inspiration? “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” “Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.” Do we speak of Omniscience? “All the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts.” Do we speak of Omnipotence? “Christ, the power of God.” Do we speak of Omnipresence? “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Do we speak of Immutability? “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Is it the office and power of Judge? “We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.” Is He to be loved with a love belonging only to Deity? “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema! [accursed]”~Octavius Winslow