The Works of Richard Sibbes Volume 6 by Richard Sibbes
The whole chain [of God's love] so holds, that all the creatures in heaven and earth cannot break a link of it. Whom he calls he will justify and glorify. Therefore never doubt of continuance, for it holds firm on God's part, not thine. God embraces us in the arms of his everlasting love, not that we embraced him first. When the child is safe from falling, it is from the mother's holding the child, and not from the child's holding the mother. So it is God's holding of us, knowing of us, embracing of us, and justifying of us that maketh the state firm, and not ours ; for ours is but a reflection and result of his, which is unvariable.
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