{"id":3029,"date":"2014-11-08T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2014-11-08T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:31:04","slug":"unquenched-unquenchable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"Unquenched, unquenchable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unquenched, unquenchable!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(J. C. Philpot \u201cLove in its Priceless Value<br \/>\nand Unquenchable Strength\u201d, 1862)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Many waters cannot quench love; neither<br \/>\ncan floods drown it.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0Song of Solomon 8:7<\/p>\n<p>The bride uses a figure which shall express the<br \/>\ninsuperable strength of divine love against all<br \/>\nopposition; and she therefore compares it to<br \/>\na fire which burns and burns unquenched and<br \/>\nunquenchable, whatever be the amount of water<br \/>\npoured upon it. Thus the figure expresses the<br \/>\nflame of holy love which burned in the heart of<br \/>\nthe Redeemer as unquenchable by any opposition<br \/>\nmade to it.<\/p>\n<p>How soon is\u00a0<strong>earthly <\/strong>love cooled by opposition! A<br \/>\nlittle ingratitude, a few hard speeches, cold words<br \/>\nor even cold looks, seem often almost sufficient to<br \/>\nquench love that once shone warm and bright. And<br \/>\nhow often, too, even without these cold waters thrown<br \/>\nupon it, does it appear as if ready to die out by itself.<\/p>\n<p>But the love of Christ was unquenchable by all those<br \/>\nwaters.<strong> <\/strong>Not all the ingratitude, unbelief, or coldness<br \/>\nof His people could quench\u00a0<strong>His eternal love to them!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He knew what the Church was in herself,<br \/>\nand ever would be . . .<br \/>\nhow cold and wandering her affections,<br \/>\nhow roving her desires,<br \/>\nhow backsliding her heart!<\/p>\n<p>But all these waters could not extinguish His love!<\/p>\n<p>It still burnt as a holy flame in His bosom,<br \/>\n<strong>unquenched, unquenchable!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Many waters cannot quench love; neither<br \/>\ncan floods drown it.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0Song of Solomon 8:7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unquenched, unquenchable! (J. C. Philpot \u201cLove in its Priceless Value and Unquenchable Strength\u201d, 1862) \u201cMany waters cannot quench love; neither can floods drown it.\u201d\u00a0Song of Solomon 8:7 The bride uses a figure which shall express the insuperable strength of divine love against all opposition; and she therefore compares it to a fire which burns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}