2 Cor. 5:14
"For the love of Christ constraineth us;..."

"There must be thankfulness in the resolution to become the Lord's, for no bands will so strongly hold us to duty as the bands of love; when the soul is filled with admirations of his grace, and a ravishing sense of the wonders of his love in Christ, we do most kindly, heartily, and thoroughly surrender ourselves to God."

Manton's Works (vol. 11: pg. 250).

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk