Affection, Like a Mighty Current

My friend Mike Davenport sent me this wonderful statement about the sweetness of the affections of a man toward his wife,

From Ray Ortlund’s blog…
“The man whose heart is endeared to the woman he loves . . . dreams of her in the night, hath her in his eye and apprehension when he awakes, museth on her as he sits at the table, walks with her when he travels. . . . She lies in his bosom, and his heart trusts in her, which forceth all to confess that the stream of his affection, like a mighty current, runs with full tide and strength.”

Thomas Hooker (1586-1647), quoted in Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were (Grand Rapids, 1986), page 40.