“See here the love of Christ in its most distinguishing glory. For the deeper He debased and the lower He humbled Himself, the higher did He raise, and the more clearly did He manifest His love.
What heart can conceive, what tongue can express, the greatness of this love! It is love without a precedent or parallel. It passeth knowledge.
Accept of Jesus Christ as He offers Himself in the gospel. He is willing to receive sinners, nay, the very worst and most abandoned of them, or He would not have swam through a sea of blood to catch them.
O! be not despisers, but cheerful and willing receivers, of Him who has written His love and good will to you in characters of blood.”
–Thomas Boston, The Whole Works of Thomas Boston: An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, Part 1, ed. Samuel M‘Millan, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 1848), 1: 502, 504
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