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title: 'R.C. Reed on the Love of God'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-09-11
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-r-c-reed-on-the-love-of-god
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# R.C. Reed on the Love of God

“The love of God did not merely pity us and provide a way to save us, but it lavished upon us all the infinite wealth of salvation. Before we were born, when as yet we existed only in the purpose and foreknowledge of God, his love put our names in the book of life, furnished a ransom for our guilt, a robe to cover our iniquity, and made ready a place for us at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Dr. John Newton was fond of telling of an old lady in his church at Olney, who said: ‘It is well for me that God chose me for his own before I was born; for if he had not, he would never have seen any reason for doing so afterward.’ That is just the respect wherein Calvinism exalts the love of God. His amazing love does not wait to see a reason. He loves us without a reason and against all reason, except the one reason, ‘God is love.’ He can no more help loving than the sun can help shining.” — [**R**.**C. Reed**](/authors/richard-clark-reed), *The Gospel as Taught by Calvin* (1896, 1979), pp. 130-131