The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

CHAP. 21.

Uses of the Doctrine, Use, First, Let none think God an hard Master, when he puts them upon service, because he affords them a principle to carry them through. Use, Secondly, To Believers that they should expect to be put upon difficult things. 1. Four considerations against discouragements. It is not to be accounted an affliction to be put upon difficult things for 4. Reasons. Use, Thirdly, Showing it can be no concluding argument against a work, because there are hinderances. Use, Fourthly, When you have been carried through difficult services consider, what it was which supported you.

Ʋses of the Doctrine, Use, First, Let none think God an hard Master, when he puts them upon service, because he affords them a principle to carry them through. Use, Secondly, To Beleevers that they should expect to be put upon difficult things. 1. Four considerations against discouragements. It is not to be accounted an affliction to be put upon difficult things for 4. Reasons. Use, Thirdly, Shewing it can be no concluding argument against a work, because there are hinderances. Use, Fourthly, When you have been carried through difficult services consider, what it was which supported you.

USE, 1.

First, Now then let none think God to be an hard Master, in putting his servants upon such difficulties as are hard to do; though he do put them upon difficulties, yet he gives them a principle to carry them through, and then it is all one as if it were easier: Carnal hearts are ready to complain of the tediousness and hardness of Gods ways, and they are ready to complain of God as an hard Master, how are they hard and tedious? They are hard and tedious to you, because you want a principle to do them by, but they are not hard to the Christian: indeed it was cruelty, and hardness to to Pharaoh to put the Israelites upon work, and take away their straw, but God though he puts his servants