Loving the Law

Love gives delight in obedience and all the duties of it. The common instance of Jacob is known, of whom it is said that his seven years service seemed short and easy to him, for the love he bare to Rachel. He did that with delight which he would not afterward undergo for the greatest wages. But we have a greater instance.

 

John Owen, The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, vol. 3 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, n.d.), 586.