“Christ loved us and laid himself out to relieve us, though we were his enemies, and had treated him ill; so we, as we would love one another as Christ hath loved us, should relieve those who are our enemies, hate us and have an ill spirit toward, and treated us ill.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) preacher, theologian, missionary to the Native Americans. Taken from Objections to Charity Answered in The Works of Jonathan Edwards volume II (London: William Ball, 1839) 171.