Puritan Wisdom

“The soul of the lowest galley-slave is more precious than heaven and earth, sun, moon, stars, and all the host of them, and, let me add, than all the silver and golden mines under ground, and all unsearchable riches of the great and wide sea. Yea, put all together, and the soul of the most contemptible beggar that cries for a crust of bread at your door is unexpressedly worthy more than all these. Now, if man’s soul is of such a high-born nature, if God has put such a spirit, which is a spark of heaven, into the bosom of man for him to employ in no other use and service but to merely be an earthworm to creep upon the ground, this is a great evil.” – Jeremiah Burroughs, A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness, 63.