The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Seventhly, Do not content your selves with what you have, but yet get higher and higher, the heart must be in motion upward, or downward, therefore the way ⟨p. 125⟩to get establishment is to be in a continual motion upwards as in 2 Pet. 3.17.18. Says the Apostle, beware least you also being led away by the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness: God hath brought you into a good temper, take heed you do not fall from your steadfastness, how shall we do? grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, Labour to get higher.

Seventhly, Do not content your selves with what you have, but yet get higher and higher, the heart must be in motion upward, or downward, therefore the way ⟨p. 125⟩to get establishment is to be in a continual motion upwards as in 2 Pet. 3.17.18. Saies the Apostle, beware least you also being led away by the eror of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness: God hath brought you into a good temper, take heed you do not fal from your steadfastness, how shall we do? grow in grace, and in the knowledg of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, Labor to get higher.

Eighthly, Improve that you have well, and that will be the way to contrive that you have, God justly takes it from you if you do not improve it. It were a blessed thing if our hearts might be kept up constantly, our lives would be comfortable to our selves, and wonderfully comfortable to others: we should cause the people of God to rejoice in us, otherwise it takes away the comfort that Gods people might have in us, though we be up at sometimes there is a great deal of crossness at other times. There is a notable expression for this of Saint Paul to the