Monday Puritan

"The Scripture compares the hopes of the wicked to the spider's web in Job 8:14. A Spider takes a great deal of pains in making a web, and then comes the broom of the maid and in one dash takes it all away. So there are many people who spin out their hopes out of themselves, as the spider does, and not out of the Word, nor out of the bowels of Jesus Christ, but out of themselves. From their good meanings, their good actions, their good serving of God, a fine web is made; but when the broom of death comes, all is dashed." Jeremiah Burroughs, Hope, p. 81.