The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

4 By this means you will cause God to walk differently with you; if you keep not up your hearts when God hath raised them, though God be in a way of mercy, you will cause him to walk in a way of displeasure against you.

4 By this means you wil cause God to walk differently with you; if you keep not up your hearts when God hath raised them, though God be in a way of mercy, you wil cause him to walk in a way of displeasure against you.

5 Again, When your hearts are up, that is the thing that the Devil doth most watch to give you a trip in. As when Daniel walked so strictly in all the matters of the Kingdom, as they could find no fault in him, they ⟨p. 123⟩accused him in the matter of his God, of his Religion: so says the Devil, if I should tempt him to such and such sins, I cannot prevail, but there is such a way I may prevail; and the Devil doth labour there most to trip you. As he did with Christ in another case; when you are on the top of the pinnacle, then he labours to throw you down: It is true, it is the work of God that hath brought you up to the pinnacle, but there the Devil doth labour to throw you down.

5 Again, When your hearts are up, that is the thing that the Devil doth most watch to give you a trip in. As when Daniel walked so strictly in al the matters of the Kingdom, as they could find no fault in him, they ⟨p. 123⟩accused him in the matter of his God, of his Religion: so saies the Devil, if I should tempt him to such and such sins, I cannot prevail, but there is such a way I may prevail; and the Devil doth labor there most to trip you. As he did with Christ in another case; when you are on the top of the pinacle, then he labors to throw you down: It is true, it is the work of God that hath brought you up to the pinacle, but there the Devil doth labor to throw you down.