The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

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.

Secondly, Faith keepeth from fear, because it hath a special eye to the highest first being of all things, now that is a rule, No inferior cause can work, but by an influence from the Superior; and therefore when by faith the eye can behold the highest supreme cause, so as to see.

Secondly, Faith keepeth from fear, because it hath a speiciall eye to the highest first being of all things, now that is a rule, No inferior cause can worke, but by an influence from the Superior; and therefore when by faith the eye can behold the highest supream cause, so as to see.