Know this, believer, to thy everlasting comfort, if those arms have once embraced thee, neither sin, nor hell, can get thee thence for ever. Thou hast not to deal with an inconstant creature but with him _with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning_.[38] His love to thee will not be as thine was on earth to him; seldom, and cold, up and down. He that would not cease nor abate his love, for all thine enmity, unkind neglects, and churlish resistances, can he cease to love thee, when he hath made thee truly lovely? He that keepeth thee so constant in thy love to him, that thou canst challenge _tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword, to separate thy love from Christ_, how much more will himself be constant?[39] Indeed thou mayest be _persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord_.[40] And now are we not left in the apostle's admiration. _What shall we say to these things?_[41] Infinite love must needs be a mystery to a finite capacity. No wonder _angels desire to look into_ this mystery.[42] And if it be the study of saints here, _to know the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge_;[43] the saint's everlasting rest must consist in the enjoyment of God by love. [Footnote 37] 1 John iv, 16. [Footnote 38] James i, 17. [Footnote 39] Romans viii, 35. [Footnote 40] Romans viii, 38, 39. [Footnote 41] Romans viii, 31. [Footnote 42] 1 Peter i, 12. [Footnote 43] Ephesians iii, 18, 19.