Love immense, and unconfin’d,
Love to all of human kind,
Love, which willeth all should live,
Love, which all to all would give,
Love, that over all prevails,
Love, that never, never fails:
Stand secure, for thou shalt prove
All th’ eternity of love.
“There is, there can be no higher, no better, no sweeter divinity than this, My beloved is mine, and I am his! O my soul rest in this! Be satisfied, and safe in the protecting, sanctifying, and reviving love of Immanuel, God with me.”
“The 33d chapter of Exodus came in my course of reading to-day. And O what pleading and communion between Moses and his God. Happy man! who conversed with the glorious Jehovah, face to face.[¹] And yet St. John seems to express something higher and sweeter than even this, 1st Epistle i. 3. For certainly internal union with God, and a fulness of his spirit, are more excellent than any external manifestation can be.”