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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.
8. Again they are like The blasted Corn: and not only as grass, but As Grass on the House top. Isa. 37.27. Wicked men are going to destruction as a thing rolling before the wind. It is said they are set in Slippery places, and the Angel of the Lord persecutes them. Psal. 35.6. If one be set upon the Ice, and another come to persecute him, he cannot stand long.
8. Againe they are like The blasted Corne: and not only as grasse, but As Grasse on the House top. Isa. 37.27. Wicked men are going to destruction as a thing rouling before the wind. It is said they are set in Slippery places, and the Angell of the Lord persecutes them. Psal. 35.6. If one be set upon the Ice, and another come to persecute him, he cannot stand long.
9. And they are as a Garment that the moth hath eaten. Job. 13.28.
10. And they are compared To the fat of Lambs before the fire. Psal. 37.20. And as Snow melting before the Sun.