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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.
First, If so be you find your hearts more up at one time than at another (as Gods People do find much difference, and can say sometime, let my Beloved come into his Garden) give God the glory and praise of it, for it is a great mercy. For,
First, If so be you find your hearts more up at one time than at another (as Gods People do find much difference, and can say somtime, let my Beloved come into his Garden) give God the glory and praise of it, for it is a great mercy. For,
1. It doth prevent, and deliver you from abundance of danger you were in: when your hearts were down, if a temptation had come, what abundance of danger had you been in? now God hath prevented that danger.
2. If your hearts were right when they were down, then you poured out your complaints to God of the deadness of your hearts; now if God be come in, it is a fruit of your seeking God, and of your humiliation before the Lord: now that which comes in as a fruit of humiliation, and much seeking of God, surely that should be the matter of our praises.
2. If your hearts were right when they were down, then you powred out your complaints to God of the deadness of your hearts; now if God be come in, it is a fruit of your seeking God, and of your humiliation before the Lord: now that which comes in as a fruit of humiliation, and much seeking of God, surely that should be the matter of our praises.