“God’s people have the best ground of love to Christ. He is ‘the chiefest among ten thousand, and altogether lovely.’ He is perfect God and perfect man in two distinct natures and one person for ever. He is the author of eternal redemption, the Saviour of the world. To him we owe both our being and our well-being. His grace is rich, free, and unchangeable. His love to us has in it heights and depths, lengths and breadths, which can never be measured. It passeth knowledge. None ever loved us as Christ, who gave himself for us. Well do Solomon and Paul unite in calling him The Beloved. All the righteous do the same. We owe him all gratitude, all good-will, all complacency.” — William S. Plumer, Vital Godliness: A Treatise on Experimental and Practical Piety (1864), p. 351