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The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs
The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs ; published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. Saith the Apostle, be at a point for them, but be sure you commit your souls to God, and you are well enough.
Answ. Sayth the Apostle, be at a point for them, but be sure you commit your souls to God, and you are wel enough.
As in a time of common fire and burning, If a man have some lumber in the fire, he doth not care for them, but if he hath Jewels and treasury, he commits them to some safe custody: and so a believer having committed his soul to God by faith, and so being sure of the terms between God and it, his soul will not admit of fear.
As in a time of common fire and burning, If a man have some lumber in the fire, he doth not care for them, but if he hath Jewels and treasury, he commits them to some safe custody: and so a beleever having committed his soul to God by faith, and so being sure of the termes between God and it, his soul wil not admit of fear.
We read of Noah. Gen. 6.14. When he had made an Ark, he pitched it about the; word that is translated pitched, is the same word that is used for propitiation or atonement: noting, that pitch was to Noah's Ark, that the atonement of Christ apprehended by faith is to the soul: when a soul by faith can apprehend the sure mercies of David in the propitiation of Christ, this is to the soul in the middest of dangers, to keep it from fears, as the pitch was to Noah's Ark in the midst of the waves, that kept it from the waters. And that is the first thing.
We read of Noah. Gen. 6.14. When he had made an Ark, he pitched it about the; word that is translated pitched, is the same word that is used for propitiation or attonement: noting, that pitch was to Noahs Ark, that the attonement of Christ apprehended by faith is to the soul: whn a soul by faith can apprehend the sure meercies of David in the propitiation of Christ, this is to the soul in the middest of dangers, to keep it from fears, as the pitch was to Noahs Ark in the midst of the waves, that kept it from the waters. And that is the first thing.