Stephen Charnock, A Discourse of Divine Providence:
When God had Noah and his family lodged in the ark, he cares not what deluge and destruction he brings upon the rest of the world. When he had conducted Lot out of Sodom, he brings down that dreadful storm of fire. He cares for no place, no, nor for the whole world, any longer than whilst his people are there, or he hath some to bring in, in time. For the meanest believer is of more worth than a world; therefore when God hath gathered all together, he will set fire upon this frame of the creation; for what was the end of Christ’s coming and dying, but to gather all things together in one? Eph. 1:10.
