"It is not therefore, O my soul, a mere negative mercy that God intends thee in the pardon of thy sins: it is not merely the removing of the curse and wrath, which thy sins have deserved, though that alone can never be sufficiently admired. But the same hand, that plucks thee out of hell by pardoning grace and mercy, lifts thee up to heaven by what it gives thee together with thy pardon, even a right and title to the glorious inheritance of saints above."quoted in The Grace of Christ, Wm. Plumer, p. 208