The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Quest. You will say, How shall we come to keep up our hearts, whenas our hearts are in a better frame, than at some other times?

Quest. You wil say, How shall we come to keep up our hearts, whenas our hearts are in a better frame, than at some other times?

Answ. First, When your hearts are up, labour to make use of that grace that raised your hearts; improve it so as to make your hearts more holy, and more upright. A Tree if it sprout upward only, and do not run down in the root proportionably, it will wither, and die: and so if grace do work only upward in abilities, and performances of duties, and joy, and such things, and do not proportionably work downward in the root, it is like it will come to little, and you will soon lose all.

Answ. First, When your hearts are up, labor to make use of that grace that raised your hearts; improve it so as to make your hearts more holy, and more upright. A Tree if it sprout upward only, and do not run down in the root proportionably, it wil wither, and die: and so if grace do work only upward in abilities, and performances of duties, and joy, and such things, and do not proportionably work downward in the root, it is like it will come to little, and you will soon lose all.

Secondly, Work that grace you find in your inward, as well as outward man: Do not think it enough that you have stirrings of Grace to enable you to do duties, but improve this grace for the working out of corruption: consider the corruptions of your heart, and now take the advantage to work them out.

Secondly, Work that grace you find in your inward, as wel as outward man: Do not think it enough that you have stirrings of Grace to enable you to do duties, but improve this grace for the working out of corruption: consider the corruptions of your heart, and now take the advantage to work them out.