Puritan Wisdom

“Indeed, it should be a great grief to any godly man that he should differ from other godly men. Although, we cannot help being different from other godly men because we are imperfect here, and sometimes a weak Christian knows that of which a strong Christian may be ignorant. It turns out sometimes that God, in some things, reveals Himself to those that are weak and hides Himself from those that are strong, so that here in the world it cannot be expected to be otherwise for the present, until that time when the New Jerusalem shall be let down from God out of heaven, and then the saints will be all of one mind and walk all in one way. But until then, it should be expected that saints will have different ways. But yet I say, it should be a very great heart-trouble to godly men to see that they are forced to go in different ways form other godly men, and on the other side, it should be a great encouragement and strengthening when the saints go on in one way together with their faces towards heaven.” – Jeremiah Burroughs, A Heavenly Conversation bound with A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness, 81-82.