Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of elections as a means of hope for those who believe in salvation.
In this quote, Thomas Goodwin conveys the significance of elections as a vital process that reflects a chance for change and the preservation of hope. He suggests that amidst various circumstances, the act of choosing can represent the possibility of salvation for a select few, reinforcing the notion that every decision holds weight in shaping outcomes.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire people during an election campaign, highlighting the hope that comes with participation.
The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in oneβs eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.
Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace.
Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
What can you ever really know of other people's souls β of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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