“‘My beloved is mine, and I am His.’ (Song of Songs 2:16) I know, says the spouse, that Jesus Christ is mine.
I can with the greatest confidence and boldness affirm it: He is my head, my husband, my Lord, my Redeemer, my Justifier, my Saviour.
‘And I am His.’ I am as sure that I am His, as I am sure that I live.
I am His by purchase, and I am His by conquest.
I am His by donation, and I am His by election.
I am His by covenant, and I am His by marriage.
I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His; I am universally His; I am eternally His.
This I well know, and the knowledge thereof is my joy in life, and my strength and crown in death.
(Eph. 1:22, 23; 1 Cor. 1:30, 6:20; Ps. 110:3; John 10:29, 15:16; Ezek. 16:8; Hos. 2:19-20)”
–Thomas Brooks, “Heaven on Earth,” The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 2, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1867/1980), 2: 320.
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