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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.
First Consider the baseness of wicked men, we do not fear things that are base.
First Consider the baseness of wicked men, we do not feare things that are base.
1. Wicked men let them be never so glorious in regard of outward things, they are but as dross and dust. Psal. 119.118.119.
2. And then their Root (that which should uphold them, and be their power) is rotten. Isa. 5, 24.
3. They are as Straw trodden down for the dunghill. Isa. 25.10.
3. They are as Straw trodden down for the dunghil.