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Excerpt from The Family of Bethany: Or, Meditations on the Eleventh Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John What a beautiful compendium of the Gospel scheme has the beloved disciple comprised in the compass of a, single verse: Herein is love! Not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins. There is something amazingly impressive in these words; they unfold to our view unutterable things of the love of God they seem to tell us, that all God's' love is concentrated in this manifestation that here all its scattered rays converge into a focus Of such surpassing brightness, as altogether eclipses every other exhibition ofthe love of God. Herein is love! It is as if St John had said Doubt as you may the love of God, when you look elsewhere for proofs, yet here, at least, you must feel that you cannot, dare not, indulge a doubt, for you cannot look to the cross, and not be com pelled to confess - Herein is love Nor Is there that conceivable ground of distrust of God's love, which the incredulity of man's alienated heart could suggest, which is not anticipated and an swered in this precious verse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.