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.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.
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