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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.
CHAP. 18. A fourth Use. To be restless till we get our selves into a good frame.
CHAP. 18. A fourth Ʋse. To be restless till we get our selves into a good frame.
USE, 4.
A Fourth Use is this: If it be so that Gods people are in such a different frame of spirit; sometime they are afraid, and their hearts are down; at other times they have a spirit of courage, and fitness for any service that God will have them to do: This should teach us when our hearts are down, and not in that fitness we desire, to be restless till we get our selves in a good frame: Sometime the Godly have their hearts in a good frame, and therefore it is possible to be had, and we should never be in rest till we had got it.
A Fourth Use is this: If it be so that Gods people are in such a different frame of spirit; somtime they are afraid, and their hearts are down; at other times they have a spirit of courage, and fitness for any service that God wil have them to do: This should teach us when our hearts are down, and not in that fitness we desire, to be restless till we get our selves in a good frame: Somtime the Godly have their hearts in a good frame, and therefore it is possible to be had, and we should never be in rest til we had got it.