Jeremiah Burroughs says this:
“A Christian values every service of God so much that, though some may be in the eyes of the world and of natural reason a slight and empty business, beggarly emoluments, or foolishness, yet since God calls for it, the authority of the command so overawes his heart that he is willing to spend himself and to be spent in discharging it.
It is an expression of Luther’s that ordinary works, done in faith and from faith, are more precious than heaven and earth.”
Let me translate:
