“The greatest design of Christ in this world is mightily to endear the hearts of His people; and indeed it was that which was in His eye and upon His heart from all eternity.
It was this design that caused Him to lay down His crown and to take up our cross, to put off His robes and to put on our rags, to be condemned that we might be justified, to undergo the wrath of the Almighty that we might forever be in the arms of His mercy.
He gives his Spirit, His grace, yea, and His very self, and all to endear the hearts of his people to Himself.”
–Thomas Brooks, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,” The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/2001), 3: 114.
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