The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

USE, 2.

A second Use is this. Hence let all believers that have evidence to themselves that they are believers, or any hope that God hath wrought faith in them, let them expect to be put upon difficult things: because God hath put in them a principle to carry them through difficult things, and God delights to improve all his creatures according to the powers they have; there is no power of nature, but God will call it forth, and improve it at some time or other, and if God delights to improve the power of nature, much more the power of Grace, which is the special, and choice power that he doth communicate to any creature in the world; and for the kind the choicest thing that he will communicate to any creature to all eternity, and therefore if you have not found hard things, expect them and make account that your faith should be called out, Faith is the most glorious Grace, able to do the most Glorious things that ever creature is able to do, and have you it for nothing? have you faith only to keep you in that ordinary way that the principles of nature are able to keep you in? if God have given you faith, he hath given you it for to do great things, and therefore expect difficult things.

A second Use is this. Hence let all beleevers that have evidence to themselves that they are beleevers, or any hope that God hath wrought faith in them, let them expect to be put upon difficult things: because God hath put in them a principle to carry them through difficult things, and God delights to improve al his creatures according to the powers they have; there is no power of nature, but God wil cal it forth, and improve it at some time or other, and if God delights to improve the power of nature, much more the power of Grace, which is the speciall, and choice power that he doth communicate to any creature in the world; and for the kind the choicest thing that he will communicate to any creature to al eternity, and therefore if you have not found hard things, expect them and make account that your faith should be called out, Faith is the most glorious Grace, able to do the most Glorious things that ever creature is able to do, and have you it for nothing? have you faith only to keep you in that ordinary way that the principles of nature are able to keep you in? if God have given you faith, he hath given you it for to do great things, and therefore expect difficult things.