Oh, Jesus, sweet the tears I shed while at thy feet, I kneel. Gaze on thy wounded fainting head, and all thy sorrows fill. My heart dissolves to see thee bleed, this heart so hard before. I hear thee for the guilty plead, and grief overflows the more. 'Twas for the sinful thou didst die and I, a sinner, stand. Convinced by thine expiring eye, slain by thy pierced hand. Ray Palmer.

Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age according to the will of our God and father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Galatians 1:3-5.

This is our comfort and our confidence that God accepts us because He accepts His beloved. And when he shall cease to love Christ, he shall cease to love the members of Christ. This is our comfort in dejection for sin. We are so and so indeed, but Christ is the chosen Servant of God in whom He delights, and delights in us in Him. It is no matter what we are in ourselves, but what we are in Christ when we are once in Him and continue in Him. God loves us with that inseparable love with which He loves His own son. Richard Sibbes.