Jeremiah Burroughs Quote

"This disposition of your heart in trembling at God's Word is accepted instead of obedience. Though you cannot obey God's word as you would, yet the Lord will spare you. That soul who finds many weaknesses, and is not able to obey many truths of God that it hears revealed in the Word, yet, if it trembles at it, peace be to that soul. I say, the Lord accepts this trembling disposition instead of obedience and, indeed, rather than obedience. The very act of obedience does not have so much in it as this. For a hypocrite may perform the act of obedience, but he has none of this trembling. A learned man said...'There's more godliness in the trembling of the heart than in the work of the hand.' God accepts it, and therefore you can be comforted in this"(Gospel Fear Pg. 54,55).