The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

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Fourthly, if Faith be the principle that carries through such difficult works: Hence who ever have been carried through difficult works, look back to what God hath carried you through, reflect upon it and see what it was that did it; such and such works God called you to, may be, as he did Moses to forsake your own country, which you have done, not out of any outward necessity, but in bare obedience to God, now may be you may meet with many hinderances, and inconveniences, you might have stayed and lived comfortable and full handed enough, if you could have dispensed with those things that others did, some hardship you had in leaving of those things; and then the example of others might come and make the work difficult: But through Gods mercy the work was undertaken, and gone through, now what is it that carried you through? was it your own natural resolutions? the strength of your own purposes? was it any assistance you had from any friends? or any help that we can imagine from any creature? upon the reviewing of it cannot you say as in the presence of God, I know not what in the world carried me through, but Gods giving me an heart to depend upon him in it.

Fourthly, if Faith be the principle that carries through such difficult works: Hence who ever have been carried through difficult works, look back to what God hath carried you through, reflect upon it and see what it was that did it; such and such works God called you to, may be, as he did Moses to forsake your owne country, which you have done, not out of any outward necessity, but in bare obedience to God, now may be you may meet with many hinderances, and inconveniences, you might have stayed and lived comfortable and full handed enough, if you could have dispensed with those things that others did, some hardship you had in leaving of those things; and then the example of others might come and make the work difficult: But through Gods mercy the work was undertaken, and gone through, now what is it that carried you through? was it your own naturall resolutions? the strength of your own purposes? was it any assistance you hade from any friends? or any help that we can imagine from any creature? upon the reviewing of it cannot you say as in the presence of God, I know not what in the world carried me through, but Gods giving me an heart to depend upon him in it.