Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.
Thomas GoodwinWhat is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
Thomas GoodwinIt was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Thomas Goodwin