_Fourthly_, Why this charity, or grace of love never faileth.
And it never faileth in respect of its proceeding from an unchangeable
GOD. We are not to understand, that our charity is always the same: No,
there may, and frequently are, ebbs and flowings; but still it never
totally faileth: No, the grace of love remaineth for ever. There is,
and will be, a charity to all who have erred and run astray from GOD.
We cannot be easy to see souls in the highway to destruction, and not
use our utmost endeavour to bring them back from sin, and shew them the
dreadful consequence of running into evil. Christians cannot bear to
see those souls for whom CHRIST died, perish for want of knowledge: and
if they see any of the bodies of their fellow-creatures in want, they
will do the utmost in their power to relieve them.
Charity will never fail, among those who have a true love to the
LORD JESUS, and know the value of souls: they will be charitable to
those who are in distress. And thus you see, that true charity, if it
proceeds from a right end, never faileth.