Loving-Kindness and Tender Mercies

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Words are utterly powerless to convey, in an adequate manner, the intensity of affection, interest, solicitude, and patient endurance expressed in the Holy Scriptures as God's attitude to man. The choicest words, in their most refined and far-reaching sense, are used, and in some cases not allowed to be appropriated to any other use, than that of expressing His tender affection for His creature. A mother's affection for her firstborn bears remarkably strong traces of it, just as the firmament displays the mighty works of His hands (Psa. 19.), or the lily (Luke 12:2727Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Luke 12:27)) gives evidence of the delicacy of His touch. But all come immeasurably short of that love or affection (both words are used) which is in His heart to those connected with His beloved Son by the Holy Ghost. Are we interposing any barrier to the outflow of such amazing grace?
“TO EVERY MAN HIS WORK.”