“You are in a storm, and your salvation is in danger. You may lose your soul, so work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Work it out of the dark. Work it out of doubts, fears, and all disputes. Work it out against all objections, and get things cleared up. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. It is a hard work, a difficult work to accomplish, and great pains must be taken about it. ‘Give diligence to make your calling and election sure’ (2 Peter 1:10). There must be diligence, for it is not easily done. Merely reciting ‘Lord, have mercy upone me’ will not save or assure a man. No, there must be praying, struggling, crying, and wrestling with God. One must search Scripture and apply its truths to his own heart. So, 2 Peter 1:5 speaks of ‘giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue’ and the like. Men and women should be diligent, very diligent, and all their diligence should be to get grace and to make their callings and elections sure. We give all diligence in other things, yet little pain is taken about the soul.”
-William Greenhill, Stop Loving the World, p. 46
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