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(John Flavel, "http://www.gracegems.org/27/fountain_of_life.htm" The Fountain of Life" 1671)

In giving Christ to die for poor sinners, God gave the 
richest jewel in His cabinet; a mercy of the greatest 
worth, and most inestimable value. 

Heaven itself is not so valuable and precious as Christ 
is! Ten thousand thousand worlds — as many worlds as 
angels can number, would not outweigh Christ's love, 
excellency and sweetness! O what a lovely One! What 
an excellent, beautiful, ravishing One — is Christ!

Put the beauty of ten thousand paradises, like the garden 
of Eden, into one; put all flowers, all fragrances, all colors, 
all tastes, all joys, all sweetness, all loveliness into one; 
O what a lovely and excellent thing would that be! And yet 
it would be less to that loveliest and dearest well-beloved 
Christ — than one drop of rain to all the seas, rivers, lakes, 
and fountains of ten thousand earths! 

Now, for God to bestow the mercy of mercies, the most 
precious thing in heaven or earth, upon poor sinners; 
and, as great, as lovely, as excellent as His Son was — what 
kind of love is this!

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