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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.
3. If you be called to any thing, God doth not call you to any hard work, nor never will, in expectation that you should do it in your own strength, but in that strength which he will give you, and yet count it upon your own score, as if you did it in your own strength to reward you for it, indeed when we consider what little strength we have, we may be discouraged, but when God doth call us to any work he doth not expect we should do it in our strength, and yet he will reward it as our own, as in that 60. Psalm. 12. Through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread ⟨p. 148⟩down our enemies: is it God that treads down our enemies how do we do valiantly? it is God that doth valiantly, we do nothing, yet says the text through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is that shall tre•d down our enemies; so that though the strength whereby God expects us to do any work by, be not our own, yet God accounts it as our own, and Christians may reckon it their own to give God the glory of it.
3. If you be called to any thing, God doth not call you to any hard work, nor never wil, in expectation that you should do it in your own strength, but in that strength which he will give you, and yet count it upon your own score, as if you did it in your own strength to reward you for it, indeed when we consider what little strength we have, we may be discouraged, but when God doth call us to any work he doth not expect we should do it in our strength, and yet he will reward it as our own, as in that 60. Psalm. 12. Through God we shal do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread ⟨p. 148⟩down our enemies: is it God that treads down our enemies how do we do valiantly? it is God that doth valiantly, we do nothing, yet says the text through God we shal do valiantly, for he it is that shall tre•d down our enemies; so that though the strength whereby God expects us to do any work by, be not our own, yet God accounts it as our own, and Christians may reckon it their own to give God the glory of it.