“Christians, remember this is your happiness and blessedness:
- That ‘none can pluck you out of your Father’s hand,’ (John 10:29);
- That you are ‘kept,’ as in a garrison, or as with a guard, ‘by the power of God through faith unto salvation,’ (1 Peter 1:5);
- ‘That the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but the kindness of the Lord shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on you,’ (Isa. 54:10)’
- ‘That Christ ever lives to make intercession for you,’ (Heb. 7:25);
- And that men and devils are as able, and shall as soon, make a world, dethrone God, pluck the sun out of the firmament, and Christ out of the bosom of the Father, as they shall pluck a believer out of the everlasting arms of Christ, or rob him of one of his precious jewels, (Deut. 33:26-27).
I shall close up this chapter with an excellent saying of Luther:
‘The whole Scripture,’ saith he, ‘doth principally aim at this thing, that we should not doubt, but that we should hope, that we should trust, that we should believe, that God is a merciful, a bountiful, a gracious, and a patient God to his people.’”
–Thomas Brooks, “Heaven on Earth,” The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 2, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1867/1980), 2: 330.
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