Monday Puritan

"Suppose a man should go into his plowed field and sow tares in the field, 'Well,' says he, 'I hope I shall have a good a crop of wheat as any man in all the country.' Would not any man in the world think the man mad who should hope for wheat when he sowed tares? Certainly the hopes of heaven and eternal life in most people are as foolish and contradictory in themselves as this kind of hope. What do you sow in your life? You sow nothing but wickedness in the course of your life, and yet you hope for heaven, glory, immortality, and the life; when the Scripture tells you plainly, 'As a man soweth, so shall he reap'" (Jeremiah Burroughs, Hope, 81-81).