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Discourses. Unitarian Church, Newhall Hill, Birmingham
Discourses Unitarian Church Newhall Hill Birmingham Author:John Green Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOD IS LOVE. My Dear Fellow Christians, I shall take for the subject of the present discourse, a portion of the 16th verse of the 4th ehapter of the 1st Ep... more »istle of John,— " God is love." God is love. What understanding attach we to these words ? God is love. Conceive we concerning them ? ' God is love. Know we what they imply ? God is love. Have we their meaning in our souls ? Perceive we, or have we light to know, what they convey ? God is love. Feel we thijs ? See we this ? Live we this ? We must be love, to assimilate what. love is. God is love. On these words, I pray, that we may be enabled to fix a mindful attention. God is love. Seek we their exposition around us, within us ; in creation. So far as we an learn, fathom we the evi- . dence, wherein, God is love. Appreciate we the capacity, whereby we can judge of the Author of our being ? And is our Creator, the Creator of all other creatures ? and of existence around us, of which we are in the midst ? Of this world ? Of the canopy that is above us ? of the sun, moon, and stars ? the systems .in which they revolve ? Is the earth, with all things of which we can conceive, the work of his will ? and is it He, God, who is love ? How unfathomable with us is our existence ! .Well do I remember, when, comparatively a child, the reflection occurred to me, Whence I was; and I revolved, thought, endeavoured to pry into the source of my being, Whence came I ? Have not these absorptions come over everyone of you ? Know you not the time, when first occurred the reflection, Whence you were? and come not over you, now, even occasionally to the oldest amongst us, the desire, the attempt, to unravel the cause,'the sprang, the how, the means, the producing, of our being ? Oh ! how I have yearned, and I have no doubt e...« less