“Oh, the rich mercy, the great love, exceeding riches of God’s grace, great goodness, tender love, great mercy, a multitude of loving kindnesses.
Oh, then not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your name be the praise. (Psalm 115:1) It is enough for us that we have life.
Let grace alone have all the praise and glory, and let everyone who reads these lines endeavor to imitate this free grace of God, which is shown to us.
First, loving the Lord, not for His gifts and rewards, but with free love, as He has loved us, and serving Him with a free spirit and a willing mind.
Second, let us be free in doing good unto all men, even to such as have deserved nothing, though they are aliens and strangers, and such as we never hope to receive any good from, yet freely to do them good, even where we look for nothing again, as God has done to us (Luke 14:12, 14).”
–Robert Purnell, A Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity from 1657; or A Little Cabinet (Greenbrier, AR: Free Grace Press, 1657/2026), 118.
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