“11. Cleave to Jesus Christ in affection and love all your days.
Why do children love their parents by instinct of nature? Because they have their life from them. Here let grace incline your hearts. You have a life from Christ; O love Christ! You have a glorified life from Christ, O glorify Christ! It is reported of the elephant that because it lacks one bone in its back if the creature falls it can never rise again but must there languish and die. A sleeping elephant fell down and could not rise, but lay there endeavoring for life to get up and could not. A traveler upon the way seeing this had compassion upon the creature and put to his strength and helped him up. The elephant, by the instinct of nature, to requite the man for his kindness, followed the man to his dying day, and historians say that when this man died the elephant lay upon his master’s grave and there died where his master died. This elephant resembles fallen Adam, and all us fallen in Adam. We so fell that the fall broke all our bones. We could never rise by our own strength. Now Jesus Christ, the good Samaritan, came by and, seeing us broken by our fall, put forth His helping hand and raised us from a state of death to a condition of life. If the elephant would requite the man for his kindness, O how should you requite your Savior, when you would have fallen into hell had not He put forth His helping hand! O cleave to Christ, and love that Christ who is the author and cause of so glorious a life!”
– Christopher Love, The Works of Christopher Love: Volume 1
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