Divine Love: A Series of Discourses

John Eadie (1810-1876) was not only a brilliant professor and author of outstanding commentaries of Pauline Epistles, but he was first and foremost a Pastor. In this long-buired volume of sermons we see Eadie at his pastoral best, as he expounds the glorious theme of Divine Love. These twelve messages touch on the very height and depth of the love of the Triune God for His underserving, indeed, ill-deserving people. The Apostle Paul tells us that it was his prayer that believers would be ‘rooted and grounded in love’ and would ‘know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, ’ (Ephesians 3:18-19) and yet a robust experiential knowledge of the love of the Father, in the Son, by the Spirit eludes many a Christian. Even though we have heard ‘Yes, Jesus loves me’ from childhood, and have heard of the Father’s great love in sending his Son from the time we first memorized John 3:16, it is difficult for us to take in this surpassing love. And thus all the more important for us to hear God’s clear overtures of love to us in his Word. It is the experience of this love that matures us. John Eadie, the respected nineteenth-century Scottish Secession minister-theologian, takes the reader on an edifying journey through this vital biblical theme. - Ligon Duncan