“If every leaf and spire of grass, nay, all the stars, sands, and atoms, were so many souls and seraphims, whose love should double in them every moment to all eternity,
“yet would it fall infinitely short of what is due to his worth and excellency.
“Suppose a creature composed of all the choice endowments that ever dwelt in the best of men since the creation of the world, in whom you find a meek Moses, a strong Sampson, a faithful Jonathan, a beautiful Absalom, a rich and wise Solomon, nay, and add to this, the understanding, strength, agility, splendor, and holiness of all the angels,
“it would all amount to but a dark shadow of this incomparable Jesus.”
— A “Mr. Jenkin,” cited in Flavel’s Fountain of Life