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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.
Seventhly. Faith helps against fear, by taking off the heart from the creature, and from all the comforts that are in it. Why doth a man fear? but because he thinks the creature will take away some comfort from him: now if the heart be taken off from the creature, and the comforts of it, and so from creature evils, neither esteeming the one, nor accounting much of the other, there is not much cause why he should fear, now faith takes off the heart from the creature. In Revel. 12.11. It is spoken of those that overcome Antichrist, that they loved not their lives: and if they were taken off from the love of life, then by consequence they were taken of from the love of any creature.
Seventhly. Faith helps against feare, by taking off the heart from the creature, and from all the comforts that are in it. Why doth a man feare? but because he thinks the creature wil take away some comfort from him: now if the heart be taken off from the creature, and the comforts of it, and so from creature evils, neither esteeming the one, nor accounting much of the other, there is not much cause why he should feare, now faith takes off the heart from the creature. In Revel. 12.11. It is spoken of those that overcome Antichrist, that they loved not their lives: and if they were taken off from the love of life, then by consequence they were taken of from the love of any creature.
It is a notable speech that Chrysostom hath concerning a worldly man. None more miserable, and more fearful than a man that is fastened to earthly things, for saith he, he doth continually live the life of care, and of trembling: but when faith comes, it takes off the heart from being fastened to the creature, and so such a one comes no longer to live the life of care, he doth not tremble any more. And suitable to his expression so was his life; speaking of Eudoxia the Empress: says he, what will she do? will she banish me? the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof. Will she cut me asunder? so was Isaiah. Will she drown me? John was cast into the Sea. Will she stone me? So was Steven. Will she behead me? so was Paul; Will she take away my substance? my heart is taken a way from that already.