“God has presented us with his goodness when he saw nothing in us but impatience and unbelief, when we were like Jonah in the belly of hell, His bowels yearned over us, and His power brought us safe to land.  What did we do to hasten His deliverance or to obtain His mercy?  If He had never come to our relief until He saw something in us to invite Him, we would never have been relived.  No more did we contribute to our restoration than we do to the rising of the sun or the approach of day.”  Timothy Rogers (1653-1728)