The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

For the first, God doth give leave to his people to flee and to avoid danger (that in the general must be laid as a certain conclusion) you know that of Christ in Math. 10.23. When they persecute you in this City, flee into another. There is leave given and injunction too. It is that which is according to the light of nature, and religion doth not extinguish the light of nature though it shows somewhat above it, and except there come in some other command above nature, we may follow the light of nature, if we do not mistake a false light for a true.

For the first, God doth give leave to his people to flee and to avoid danger (that in the general must be laid as a certaine conclusion) you know that of Christ in Math. 10.23. When they persecute you in this City, flee into another. There is leave given and injunction too. It is that which is according to the light of nature, and religion doth not extinguish the light of nature though it shews somewhat above it, and except there come in some other command above nature, we may follow the light of nature, if we do not mistake a false light for a true.

And further we find it by plentiful example of Gods people, yea Christ himself avoided danger, and fled from it, and therefore he gives leave to it. As Elijah was a man of spirit enough, and yet in 1 Kings, 19.3. He fled for his life. and those Prophets that Obadiah ⟨p. 60⟩hid were willing to avoid danger, as in 1 Kings, 18.4. And the example of Christ himself presently after he was born, when Herod slew all the children of two years old and under, then there came a commission from God unto Joseph to flee with Christ into Egypt. Afterwards when Christ came to years, when he saw himself to be in danger, he avoided it. Divers texts we have for that in