What They Said

"All other evils do not make a man the subject of God’s wrath and hatred. A man may have all other evils and yet be in the love of God. You may be poor and yet precious in God’s esteem. You may be under all kinds of miseries and yet dear in God’s thoughts. But sin is an evil that makes the soul the subject of God’s wrath and hatred. The absence of all other goods, the presence of all created evils will not make you hateful to God if sin is not there; so the presence of all other goods and the absence of all other evils will not render you lovely if sin is there."

Samuel Bolton