Thomas Boston, Works, 5:403:
Let God’s people be put to suffer for him what they will, they can never be losers at his hand; Heb. 11:16, “God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.” Suppose they be turned out of house and hold, pinched with cold, hunger, thirst, and nakedness, loaded with reproach, suffer the most exquisite torments unto death; they are not losers at his hand: he may well put them to all these, and yet maintain and show his special love to them, having such a place provided for them in the other world, where all will be abundantly made up.
Let God’s people be put to suffer for him what they will, they can never be losers at his hand; Heb. 11:16, “God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.” Suppose they be turned out of house and hold, pinched with cold, hunger, thirst, and nakedness, loaded with reproach, suffer the most exquisite torments unto death; they are not losers at his hand: he may well put them to all these, and yet maintain and show his special love to them, having such a place provided for them in the other world, where all will be abundantly made up.
