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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.
Thirdly, know the glory of God is as dear and precious to him as your own souls are to you; and therefore if so be the cause, the honour of God depend upon it; know God will take care for his own honour, you are afraid you should betray the cause of God because you find your hearts so down now, and perhaps if they were so down then when God calls you to stand for his cause it might be so: but what is it that troubles you? you are afraid to bring guilt and misery upon your selves and dishonour God; but know the glory of God is precious to him, and being it is engaged in you that you should dishonour him; being one of his, he will take care of you.
Thirdly, know the glory of God is as deare and precious to him as your own souls are to you; and therefore if so be the cause, the honor of God depend upon it; know God wil take care for his own honor, you are afraid you should betray the cause of God because you find your hearts so down now, and perhaps if they were so down then when God calls you to stand for his cause it might be so: but what is it that troubles you? you are afraid to bring guilt and misery upon your selves and dishonor God; but know the glory of God is precious to him, and being it is engaged in you that you should dishonor him; being one of his, he wil take care of you.
Fourthly, Consider how God hath come in graciously to supply his people in the time of need, he hath filled ⟨p. 115⟩their spirits in the time of straights when he hath called them to any hard work, and they have done that which they thought they should never have done, as it is with wicked men: you see some so vile and wicked, as you could never have thought they should have been, so the Godly though sometimes their hearts are down, yet at other times they have such assistance, and enlargement and fullness of the spirit, as one would never have thought they should have had.
Fourthly, Consider how God hath come in graciously to supply his people in the time of need, he hath filled ⟨p. 115⟩