The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

And great courage you have in David in Psal. 23. and others, Though he walked in the shadow of death, and whatsoever befell him he would not be afraid. And so the Church of God saith in Psal. 46.2.3.4. verses, Therefore we will not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the middest of the Sea. Though the waters thereof roar, and be troubled, though the Mountains shake with the swelling thereof, There is a river the Streams whereof shall make glad the City of our God. We enjoy the ordinances of God, and we will not fear though there are such tumults abroad in the world.

And great courage you have in David in Psal. 23. and others, Though he walked in the shadow of death, and whatsoever befel him he would not be affraid. And so the Church of God sayth in Psal. 46.2.3.4. verses, Therefore we wil not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountaines be carried into the middest of the Sea. Though the waters thereof roare, and be troubled, though the Mountaines shake with the swelling thereof, There is a river the Streams whereof shal make glad the City of our God. We enjoy the ordinances of God, and we wil not fear though there are such tumults abroad in the world.

And so that which is said concerning Jeremiah in Chap. 15.12. Shall iron break the Northern Iron and the steel? though they were as Iron that reasoned against ⟨p. 28⟩Jeremiah, yet Jeremiah was to be as steel when Iron Strikes against Steel. It doth not break it, but brighten it; and so all the opposition that Jeremiah had from all the great ones was but as the striking of Iron against Steel, it did not break his spirit but brighten it. And that of the three Children in