He that loves the word

....He that loves the word, and that is affected and taken with the
word as it is a holy word, he loves the whole word of God, and he is
affected and taken with one part of the word as well as another.  Every
law of God is a holy law, and every statute is a holy statute, and every
command is a holy command, and every promise is a holy promise, and
every threatening is a holy threatening, and every exhortation is a holy
exhortation; and, therefore, he that loves any part of the word as a holy
word, he cannot but love every part of the word, because every part of
the word is holy.  (As the wise philosopher delights in all Aristotle, and the
prudent physician in all Galen, and the grave orator in all Tully, and the
understanding lawyer in all Justinian so a holy man delights in all the Bible. 
The Jewish Rabbins were wont to say that upon every letter of the law
there hangs mountains of profitable matter.)  And indeed he loves no
part of the word as holy who loves not every part of the word as such. 
Every chapter in the book of God is a holy chapter, and every verse is a
holy verse, and every line in that book is a holy line, and every word in
every line is a holy word.  He that loves a chapter as it is a holy chapter,
he loves every verse in that chapter as a holy verse; and he that loves
every verse as a holy verse, he loves every line as a holy line; and he that
loves every line as a holy line, he loves every word in every line as a holy
word.  Upon easy commands he reads holiness, and upon difficult
commands he reads holiness; upon comfortable commands he reads
holiness, and upon costly commands he reads holiness, and upon dangerous
commands he reads holiness, and therefore he loves all, and closes with all,
and endeavours a conformity to all.  A holy heart dares neither to dispute
with that word, nor make light of that word, where he reads holiness
engraven upon it.  To a holy heart there is no command of God unjust or
unreasonable.  But now an unholy heart, though it may for some worldly
advantages court and cry up some parts of the word, yet it is ready, with
Judas, to betray and crucify other parts of the word.  The whole Scripture
is but one entire love letter, despatched from the Lord Christ to his beloved
spouse on earth; and this letter is written all in golden letters, and therefore a
holy heart cannot but be taken and affected with every line in this letter.  In
this love-letter there is so much to be read of the love of Christ, the heart of
Christ, the kindness of Christ, the grace of Christ, and the glory of Christ,
that a holy heart cannot but be affected and taken with it.  The whole word
of God is a field, and Christ is the treasure that is hid in that field; it is a ring of
gold, and Christ is the pearl in that ring, and therefore a holy heart cannot but
be taken with the whole word of God.  Luther was wont to say that he would
not take all the world for one leaf of the Bible.  And Rabbi Chija, in the Jerusalem
Talmud, says that in his account all the world is not of equal value with one word
out of the law.
.....A man that is affected and taken with the word as it is a holy word, he is
always affected and taken with it; he loves it and takes pleasure in it, as well in
adversity as in prosperity:  Ps. 119:59, 'Thy statutes have been my songs'-ay, but
where?—'in the house of my pilgrimage,' or 'pilgrimages,' as the Hebrew hath it. 
(The saints have commonly looked upon themselves as pilgrims and strangers in
this world, Gen. 47:9, 39; Ps. 12:19; Heb. 11:9-10, etc.)  When David was in his
banishments, by reason of Saul, Absalom, and others, now the word of God was
music to him, now it was matter of joy and rejoicing to him; his whole life was the
life of a pilgrim and stranger; now as a pilgrim he sojourns here, and anon as a
stranger he sojourns there.  No man could take more pleasure, joy, and contentment
in the rarest and choicest music than David did in the word of God, and that not only
when he was in his royal palace, but also when he was in the house of his pilgrimage. 
He that loves the word, and that delights in the word for its holiness and purity, he
will love it and delight in it in health and sickness, in strength and weakness, in
honour and disgrace, in wealth and want, in life and in death.  The holiness of the
word is a lasting holiness, and so will every man's affections be towards it who
affects it, and is taken with it for its holiness and pureness.....But now, though a
holy Christian is not at all times in the same degree and measure taken with the
word, yet take such a Christian when he is at worst, and you shall find two
things in him:  (1.) you shall find in him a holy love to the word; and (2.) you
shall find in him a real love to holy Christians.                                                                                                                                                                     Thomas Brooks