A world such as this

Can I love such a world as this, where tyranny sheds streams of blood, and lays cities and countries desolate; where the wicked are exalted, the just and innocent reproached and oppressed, the gospel restrained, idolatory and infidelity too generally kept up; where Satan too often chooses pastors for the churches of Christ, even such as by ignorance, pride, and sensuality, become devouring wolves to those whom they should feed and comfort; where no two persons are in all things of a different mind, and where appears but little hopes of a remedy? And shall I not think more delightfully of "the inheritance of the saints in light" and of the cordial love and joyful praises of the church triumphant? Should I not love a lovely and loving world much better than a world where there is comparatively so little lovliness of love? [Richard Baxter]