Jeremiah Burroughs Quote

"When the Lord is bringing public calamity upon a people, He usually makes His 'buts' His exceptions....It's true, sometimes, that godly ones may be taken away in the judgments of a nation, but it is when God has some special work to bring about by their deaths....Lie at the goodness of the Lord to do with us what he pleases. It is for some great work that God has to bring about that yet is kept hidden from us. But this we must be confident of: God will have as much glory from their deaths as He would have had from their lives, and however the ways of God are so dark towards us for the present, yet there is a time when God will make His 'buts,' when there shall be known a difference between him who fears God and him who does not" (Jeremiah Burroughs, Gospel Fear73,74).