Monday Puritan

"We see by experience that at such times when men have least hopes, that is, upon the sickbed or death bed, when the very ice is cracking and they are ready to be swallowed up by the gulf of eternal misery, then they would be godly and would purge themselves. But when they have health, peace, and some hope, now they are ungodly. So the best condition that many people are in is when they are most in despair, when they are ready to die, when their hopes are most shaken -- then are they in the best tune. But it is otherwise with the saints; when their hopes are most raised, then their hearts are ost sanctified." -- Jeremiah Burroughs, Hope, p. 79