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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.
Sixthly, nay I appeal to you, have you never found your hearts up for God? was there never a time that there was quickening and enlarging of your hearts for God, that you have felt some comfortable fitness for service, or suffering?
Sixthly, nay I appeal to you, have you never found your hearts up for God? was there never a time that there was quickning and enlarging of your hearts for God, that you have felt some comfortable fitness for service, or suffering?
Object. I cannot but say it hath been so with me, but it is gone, and down again; there are none but have some flashings, and stirrings, and some good moods, and mine may be no more for all I know; grace is a constant thing, and the heart is established with it, and therefore though I feel my heart a little up sometimes, yet they are but such flashings as any may have, that have no grace.
Answ. To that I answer, There are some works of Grace that are steady, and constant, that do more immediately ⟨p. 116⟩flow from the principles, and being of Grace: and there are other works of Grace that are more remote, that are not so steady and constant.