Here’s the eighth abridged extract from Ebenezer Erskine’s 10 point sermon on 10 ways in which God in Christ is a God of love:
Ebenezer Erskine
8. God in Christ is a God of infinite bounty and liberality, and a prayer-hearing God; Oh Sirs! his heart is free, and his hand is full and open; open hearted, open handed: …When we have asked great things of him, he quarrels us as if we had asked nothing: he does not deal with a scrimp or a sparing hand : no, no; “Ask, and ye shall receive, (says he) that your joy may be full.- Yea, such is his bounty, that he is ready to do for us exceeding abundantly above what we can either ask or think…
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