Reader, “If the love of relations will not afford us a just measure for the love of Christ; let us see if there be any thing else in the whole scale of nature that may furnish us with a line commensurate to it.—And we can no sooner think of making the inquiry, but we propose to ourselves the height of heaven, the breadth of the earth. ‘The heaven for height, and the earth for depth’ (Proverbs 25:3). But we must despair of finding any thing that may measure or circumscribe this love [in creation], since the apostle has assured us, that ‘the riches of Christ’ are ‘unsearchable,’ (Ephesians 3:8), such as we must expect ‘no footsteps of’ in the whole creation (Psalm 77:19). The apostle might preach it, but could not fully reach it: for ‘we know in part, and we prophesy in part’ (1 Corinthians 13:9).