to be for her profit.--Oh, but His love is _strong_. He requires no more
for all that He has done, and all that He hath given, but that He see
the travail of His soul. He will think but little of all that He hath
done, if we will but accept of His love, and lay our love upon Him. Yea,
so may be said of Him, as was said of Jacob,--the seven years that he
served for Rachel seemed but a few days, for the love that He bare unto
her. His love is so strong, that although thou shouldest run away from
Him never so fast, yet His love will overtake thee, and bring thee back
again. Paul ran very fast in opposition to His love, when he was going
to Damascus to persecute the Church. But Christ's love overtook him
suddenly. Manasseh ran very fast from Christ, when he made the streets
of Jerusalem to run with innocent blood, and set up an abomination in
the house of God, and used witchcraft; and yet Christ's love overtook
him, and brought him back again from the pit. If thou art one of those
that the Father hath given to the Son, though thou shouldest run to the
brink of hell, He will bring thee back again from thence.

"Christ's love is _pure_ and _sincere_ love. 'Herein is love, not that
we loved Him, but that He loved us;" not for any advantage that He can
have by us, for He is infinite in all perfections without us; therefore
we can neither enrich Him, nor add any more glory to Him. We may well
magnify His power; that is all we can do, and all the advantage is our
own. Christ's love is not a base love; He loves us not for His good or
advantage, but for our real good and advantage. It is pure and sincere
love, for all the advantage is ours.

"Christ's love is an _enriching_ love, for those upon whom His love is
bestowed are no more poor. How can they be poor who have Christ for
their riches? for, saith the Apostle, 'All things are yours, and ye are
Christ's, and Christ is God's.' If ye have this love bestowed on you,