Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Is the love of Christ past knowledge? an unsearchable love? then learn whence and why it is that th• souls of Believers never are, not can be tired in beholding and enjoying Jesus Christ. We use to say, one thing is tiresome; and it is very true, if it be an earthly thing, it will be so, how sweet or excellent soever it seems at first; and the reason is, because the b•t Creature-enjoyment is but a shallow thing, and a few thoughts will sound it to the bottom; and there being no supply of new matter to feed the hungry soul upon, it is quickly sated and cloyed with the repetition of the same thing over and over, but it is far otherwise in Christ; for though he be but one, yet in that ⟨p. 220⟩one thing, all things are virtually and eminently contained, so that every day he seems a new Christ for sweetness, and yet is the same Christ still. And in Heaven the Redeemed shall view him with as much wonder, and love him with as much ardour after millions of years, as they did at their first sight of him. O! there is no bottom in the love of Christ; it passeth knowledge.

3. In a word, bestow your best and chiefest love upon Christ, whose love to you passeth all knowledge. Let no creature be loved equally with Christ, but as his love to you passeth all Creature-love, so let yours to him be a matchless love.

Believer, Christ loves thee with an unsearchable love, he loves thee more than the dearest friend, that is, as thine own soul loves thee. He loves thee more than thou lovest thy Child, or the Wife of thy bosom; more than thy soul loves thy body, with which it is so intimately united: And wilt thou content thy self with such poor narrow remiss affections to Jesus Christ.