From the Prodigal

"We are the descendants of those described. Our forefathers were given up to as brutish a service of the devil as any nation under the sun. It was therefore the work of infinite mercy that the day dawned on us, and that the 'day-spring from on high has visited us.' God might justly have left us to perish in the blindness and ignorance of our forefathers. But of his own will, and by his own powerful grace alone, he has 'translated us out of darkness into his marvelous light.' But the horrible ingratitude of men for the glorious light of the gospel, and the abuse of it, will bring on us his severe judgments." --Owen