dying for the love of us, says, “Yes, Lord, I will attend and see if there be any love like unto Thy love.”1 By which he means, I do indeed see and understand, O my most loving Redeemer, how much Thou didst suffer upon that infamous tree; but what most constrains me to love Thee is the thought of the affection which Thou hast shown me in suffering so much, in order that I might love Thee. That which most inflamed St. Paul with the love of Jesus was the thought that he chose to die, not only for
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