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Eleven addresses during a retreat of the Companions of the love of Jesus
Eleven addresses during a retreat of the Companions of the love of Jesus Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADDEESS III. God's Love for each soul in the Incarnation. " What is the value of a soul ? " We might answer by another question, " What was the Price of a ... more »soul ?" " The Blood of God !" For what God did for all, He did for each, as St. Paul says, " He loved me and gave Himself for me." Nay, our Blessed Lord has been thought to have said, that He would be crucified again, if so He could save one single soul more. It is thought that God would have become incarnate, even if Adam had not fallen. This too would be part of His infinite love for our human souls, that He would have been willing to take our manhood into Himself, even if there had been no ground for it, except that love, whereby He would unite us as closely as He could to Himself. God the Word would have united, it has been thought, our human nature to His Divine, even if He had had no occasion to pay the penalty of our sins, to suffer and to die for us. He would have willed, it is thought, to have chosen, us, the least and lowest of His rational creation, to unite in us His creation with Himself. His creation was, so to speak, outside of Himself. He had endowed Angels and manwith free-will. Angels too He must have made in a likeness of Himself; yea, in a nearer likeness to Himself than man, because .they are purely spirits. He had bound them to Him, if their free-will would be bound, by that created grace, with which He invested them. He had clothed both angels and man with His grace. Yet His creation stood in a manner over-against Himself, a beautiful kingdom, of which He was the supreme King; but still there was no link, no bond of union, between the creature and God, except the profuseness of the out-pourings of His love, and their God-enabled allegiance, returning love for love; free created love, reflecting, pene...« less