“Christ loves you better than His life, for He gave away His life to get your love.
He spared neither cost nor expense.
Christ, who was without sin, gave Himself a ransom for you, sinners.
His Father laid a cross on Him. He bought you with His Father’s curse!
Was not that a dear wife to Him? Then let Christ be dear to you.
What a sight was innocent and harmless Jesus when He stood before the Governor, and had not one word to say!
They laid thieves’ bands on our Saviour’s hands, that had never stolen, that had never shed blood.
Bands bound His hands, but love, mercy, and grace bound His tender heart with stronger bands and cords, to loose us out of the bands of sin.
He cried in the Spirit, “Father, bind Me, and loose them; slay Me, and save them. All their ill be upon Me.”
So be it, dear Jesus!
Christ cried with a loud voice in death, “Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit.”
Then our Lord died; because it was His will.
Death could not bind Him, but love to His wife bound Him.
Love is stronger than death; nay, love was as strong as Christ.
The law was weak now, for Christ satisfied it; and now it has no power over you.
Ye are in Christ; and He is a better Master than the law.
Change not with any Master again.
Follow Him all the way to heaven.”
–Samuel Rutherford, Fourteen Communion Sermons, ed. Andrew A. Bonar, Second Edition (Glasgow: Charles Glass & Co., 1877), 285–286.
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