The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

4. Attribute nothing to means; for though thou usest means, yea whatsoever was done by Faith, was done above means, beyond means, and might have been done without means.

4. Attribute nothing to means; for though thou usest means, ye whatsoever was done by Faith, was done above means, beyond means, and might have been done without means.

5. Hath God carried you through any difficult work? and was this a principle: Labour to prize the word of God upon which thy faith was built to nourish and increase this Joy.

5. Hath God carryed you through any difficult work? and was this a principle: Labor to prize the word of God upon which thy faith was built to nourish and increase this Joy.

6. If you have found your faith hath carried you through great things, take heed thy Faith do not fail thee in less things, that will be a shame; As a mariner that hath been in great storms, and tempests, and hath wrought through them, if afterward he should come, and perish in the haven, or in some ordinary tempest, for want of Skill that would grieve him more; & so for a Soldier that hath been in desperate battles afterwards to be overcome with a little strength, he looseth his honour, this is possible that a Christian by his faith may be carried through wonderful great things, and yet his faith may fail him afterwards in lesser things, as many a man may escape great dangers, and recover great success, and yet afterwards die of a cold, and those that God hath carried through great things, may fail in lesser, but it is an infinite shame, take heed to your selves in that: As David speaks concerning Saul,