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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.
The Prophet saith in Jer. 17.17. Be not thou a terror to me, for thou art my hope in the day of evil. Lord let me be delivered from thy terror and all the world shall not terrify me. Those that have been brought up delicately, and know not what any danger means, if they hear of any commotion and danger, they tremble, but those that are used to wars, that continually heat the noise of Cannons, and see the affrighting objects, and desperate things that are there, they are not so soon made afraid, because they have been where terrors have been, and have been delivered from them and so a believing soul hath been acquainted with other manner of terrors than the terrors of men, and faith delivering from them, will deliver from these.
The Prophet saith in Jer. 17.17. Be not thou a terror to me, for thou art my hope in the day of evil. Lord let me be delivered from thy terror and all the world shall not terrifie me. Those that have been brought up delicately, and know not what any danger means, if they heare of any commotion and danger, they tremble, but those that are used to warrs, that continually heate the noise of Cannons, and see the affrighting objects, and desperate things that are there, they are not so soon made affraid, because they have been where terrors have been, and have been delivered from them and so a beleeving soul hath been acquainted with other manner of terrors than the terrors of men, and faith delivering from them, will deliver from these.
Fourthly, Faith helps against the fear of men, and all dangers and evils, by implanting the true fear of God in the soul. Where faith comes, as it brings all grace with it, so it brings the grace of the fear of God and the reason of all disorderly fear in the world, is for want of the true fear of God: I do not mean the fear of his wrath, but that reverence that we owe to God as creatures to the Creator, that fear of God wherein a great part of Gods worship consisteth: if the soul were possessed with that, other fears would vanish.