Men can rise up early and go to bed late, eat the bread of carefulness, and all to get some little inconsiderable piece of this world, to provide for a frail, short life here: and who is there, that thinks his pains too much? And why, then, should you not labor for a future life in another world, that you confess to be infinitely more glorious and desirable than any thing you can obtain here? To me, it is folly, so gross and senseless as to be bemoaned, if it were possible, with tears of blood, that men should so toil for the low conveniences of the world, and yet neglect the eternal happiness of their precious and immortal souls, as if they were not worth the looking after.
Ezekiel Hopkins — The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins, D.D., Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry, vol. II, ed. Charles W. Quick, first American from Pratt's London edition (Philadelphia: Leighton Publications, 1874), "Practical Christianity," section on working out our own salvation, p. 497
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