A Bottomless, Boundless, Endless Ocean
By Anne Dutton

God's love is everlasting, free, sovereign, inseparable, great, and unchangeable. the happy objects of his love can never, never be separated from it. Neither death nor life, heights nor depths, things present nor things to come, shall ever be able to separate those upon whom it is fixed.

The love of God to His people is a bottomless, boundless, endless ocean which swallows up their innumerable and mountainous sins in its infinite depths. The love of God to His people overflows all their great provocations, all their vilest ingratitude, all their utmost unworthiness, and ever flows in its triumphant strength, and according to its infinite riches, to the full supply of all their necessities, until it has loved its beloved objects into its own image, loved all sin out of them, loved all grace into them, freed them from all death and misery, raised them into itself as the element of their life.

And then the love of God will be to these vessels of mercy an infinite ocean of joy and glory, where they shall live and bathe and dive to the praise of the glory of infinite love to the endless ages of a blessed eternity.

But, O, neither the tongues of men nor angels can express,
Much less the lispings of a babe set forth,
The thousandth part of the infinite glories,
And the ineffable and endless bliss
Of God's everlasting love.

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