God's Love Never Changes

Beloved, let us not lose the comfort of the constancy and immutability of God's love. Let us conceive that all the sweet links of salvation are held strong on God's part, not on ours; the firmness is on God's part, not on ours.
Election is firm on God's part, not on ours. We choose indeed as he chooses us, but the firmness is of his choosing; so, he calls us, we answer, but the firmness is of his action. He justifies; we are made righteous, but the firmness is of his imputation. Will he forgive sins today, and bring us into court and damn us tomorrow? No. The firmness is of his action. We are ready to run into new debts every day, but whom he justifies he will glorify. The whole chain 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 yours. God embraces us in the arms of his everlasting love, not that we embraced him first.
When the child does not fall 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 makes the state firm, and not ours; for ours is but a reflection and result of his, which is invariable.
The sight of the sun varies, but the sun in the firmament always keeps its constant course. So, God's love is as the sun, invariable, and forever the same. I only begin to touch it, as the foundation of wonderful comfort.

Devotional Readings taken from Puritan Richard Sibbes 'Refreshment for the Soul.'
A Heavenly Conference, pp. 53-54
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