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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.
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.
3. This is a gracious visitation of God, God comes in with this, and here is the presence of God, and therefore there is much cause of praise.
3. This is a gracious visitation of God, God comes in with this, and here is the presence of God, and therfore there is much cause of praise.