33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him. O glorious fear-killing sentence! This crowns the covenant with
exceeding glory. Mercy may seem to depart from the Lord’s chosen, but it will
never altogether do so. Jesus still enjoys the divine favor, and therefore
under the most trying circumstances the Lord’s lovingkindness to each one of
his chosen will endure the strain. If the covenant be made void by our sins it
would have been void long ere this. God may leave his people, and they may
thereby suffer much, but utterly and altogether he never can remove his love
from them; for that would be to cast a reflection upon his own truth, and this
he will never allow, for he adds nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Humankind fails in all points, but God in none. To be faithful is one of the
eternal characteristics of God.
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