The Late Rev. William Ashmead, Sermons, with a Memoir of his Life (Philadelphia: Towar, J. & D. M. Hogan, 1830), Sermon VIII, pp. 149–150

The gospel itself teaches us that "God is love," and the plan of redemption which it unfolds, is a most sublime and glorious display of benignity and mercy, on the part of the Father who gave his Son, and of the Son who…