The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Thirdly, That which Faith doth in enabling the soul to any difficult work, is the assisting of the soul with the highest encouragements that possibly can be; the encouraging Promises of God, and the encouraging Expressions that are in the Word, that might put life into the deadest spirit in the world: the encouragements that are ⟨p. 138⟩in the Scripture, lay as it were dead to the heart, no but that there is life in them, but because of the deadness of the heart; now Faith comes and puts life into them. In this 11. chapter of the Hebrews, Faith i• commended by raising dead to life; here is as great a commendation of Faith, when Faith shall raise a dead Promise, and dead encouragement, and put life into it. We read a Promise or an encouragement may be twenty times before, but it was as dead; but now Faith doth come and put life into it, and the soul can come and lay face upon its face, and mouth upon its mouth, and eyes upon its eyes, and it comes to be a mighty quickening thing to enable it to any service.

Thirdly, That which Faith doth in enabling the soul to any difficult work, is the assisting of the soul with the highest encouragements that possibly can be; the encouraging Promises of God, and the encouraging Expressions that are in the Word, that might put life into the deadest spirit in the world: the encouragements that are ⟨p. 138⟩in the Scripture, lay as it were dead to the heart, no but that there is life in them, but because of the deadness of the heart; now Faith comes and puts life into them. In this 11. chapter of the Hebrews, Faith i• commended by raising dead to life; here is as great a commendation of Faith, when Faith shal raise a dead Promise, and dead encouragement, and put life into it. We read a Promise or an encouragement may be twenty times before, but it was as dead; but now Faith doth come and put life into it, and the soul can come and lay face upon its face, and mouth upon its mouth, and eyes upon its eyes, and it comes to be a mighty quickning thing to enable it to any service.