One last word, 'We love Him, because He first loved us.' Do you? Or is it rather true of you: 'I do not love God, though He has loved me'? I saw not long since, up on the flank of a mountain, an obstinate patch of snow, that had fronted, in unmelted cold, months of the summer sun. There are some of us who lift a broad shield of thick-ribbed ice between ourselves and the radiance of the warm heart of God. Oh! brother; do not shut that love out of your heart; for if you do, you shut out peace and goodness, and shut in all manner of poisonous creatures and doleful shapes, whose companionship will be misery and death.
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Transcriber's note:
List of corrections and amendments made:
Ephesians:
Page 36: added closing quote after "the event of our inheritance" (line 3) 102: "gentle words _ot_" to "_to_" 154: "it" added in "what it is to hear" 263: [Preached on Whitsunday] was a footnote. 286: (R.V.) to (R.V.). for consistency with other references. 286: "please _to_ understand" to "_do" 287: "we _shoud_ be entitled" to "should" 391: added -- and changed Ephes. to Eph. for consistency with other headings 391: added colon after "Mark its simplicity" (for grammar, and there was a large space in the book)
Peter and John:
8: "_ordisaster_" to "_or disaster_" 28: added close quote after "that which is another's" 34: added close quote after "My heavenly Father's Kingdom." 39: "to _y_" -> "to you" in poetry 66: added -- after "especially to recreation" (for sense, and there was a large space in the book) 86: "_Caesarae_ Philippi" to "_Cæsarea_ Philippi" 88: "bow _or_ stubborn" to "bow _our_ stubborn" 99: "dicattes" to "dictates" 107: "ever" to "even" in quotation from 1 Peter ii. 21 116: added opening quote before "Any man who" 146: "inadeqate" to "inadequate" 170: "It may be that he he". Duplicate word deleted 173: "_Whose_ righteousness clothes" to "_whose_" 210: added open quote before sea of glass (by reference to Rev 15:2) 219: "slave has no _resource_" -> "_recourse_" 219: added opening quote before "Take that man's child" 242: added closing quote after "like Lebanon." 260: added closing quote after "all sin." 297: added closing quote after "My Father;" 308: added closing quote after "at His coming" 313: corrected 1 John iv. 9 to 1 John i. 9 (the verse being quoted)