The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

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⟩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 som•imes their hearts are down, yet at other times they have such assistance, and enlargement and fulness of the spirit, as one would never have thought they should have had.

Fifthly, God hath made a mighty difference in your estates from that they were before, and therefore why should you not hope that God will make a difference between that we are now, and that we may be hereafter, If God have wrought the least degree of saving grace in you, he hath made more difference between you, and one that is in his natural condition, than there is between you and the glorified Saints: (as I have noted before) and if God have made such a great difference, why should you disturb your selves to think it will never be other then it is now?

Fifthly, God hath made a mighty difference in your estates from that they were before, and therefore why should you not hope that God will make a difference between that we are now, and that we may be hereafter, If God have wrought the least degree of saving grace in you, he hath made more difference between you, and one that is in his natural condition, than there is between you and the gloryfied Saints: (as I have noted before) and if God have made such a great difference, why should you disturbe your selves to think it wil never be other then it is now?