Grace doth not pluck up by the roots and wholly destroy the natural passions of the mind, because they are distempered by sin! That were an extreme remedy to cure by killing, and heal by cutting off; no, but it corrects the distemper in them; it dries not up this main stream of love, but purifies it from the mud which it is full of in its wrong course, or turns it into its right channel, by which it may run into happiness, and empty itself into the ocean of goodness. The Holy Spirit turns the love of the soul towards God in Christ, for in that way only can it apprehend his love; so then Jesus Christ is the first object of this Divine love; he is medium unionis, through whom God conveys the sense of his love to the soul, and receives back its love to himself.
Robert Leighton — A Practical Commentary upon the First Epistle General of Peter, vol. 1, on 1 Peter 1:8 (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1864]), p. 98
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