“God gains the greatest glory by bestowing of Himself as a portion upon the greatest sinners.
There is nothing that makes so much for the glory of free grace, and for the exaltation of rich mercy, and for the praise of divine goodness, and for the honour of infinite fulness, as God’s bestowing Himself upon the greatest of sinners.
O sirs! grace appears never so rich, nor never so excellent, nor never so glorious, as when it triumphs over the greatest sins, and when it falls upon the greatest sinners.
Grace never shines, nor never sparkles, nor never becomes so exceeding glorious, as it doth when it lights upon the hearts of the greatest sinners.
The greatest sins do most and best set off the freeness and the riches of God’s grace.
There is nothing that makes heaven and earth to ring and to sound out His praises, so much as the fixing of His love upon those that are most unlovely and uncomely, and as the bestowing of Himself upon them that have given away themselves from Him.
And it is further observable, that the greatest sinners, when once they are converted, do commonly prove the choicest saints, and the rarest instruments of promoting the honour and glory of God in the world.”
–Thomas Brooks, “An Ark for All of God’s Noahs,” The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 2, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1867/1980), 2: 121.
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