The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Helps to put on Faith in any undertaking. 1. Set before you the example of your great Captain Jesus Christ. 2. Make preparation for the work of Faith by Humiliation. 3. Renew your Faith in the Covenant of Grace. 4. In difficult times, set Faith on work to purify the heart. 5. Take heed of shifting ways and dependences. 6. Set loose from your own ends. 7. Cast your selves upon the word of God. 8. Plead the word with God in prayer. 9. Refuse no means that God puts into your hands. 10. Do nothing with a slavish spirit 11. Be not discouraged by miscarriages that are past 12. Take heed of the disturbance of passion in your work. 13. Observe the dependences one work hath upon another. 14. Listen not to Temptations. 15. Take heed of perverse reasonings. 16. Take heed of disorderly working, in four cases. 17. Use resolution and Courage. 18. Look on your selves as Gods Instruments. 19. Be constant though you find nothing come of it. 20. Increase not the difficulty by your Carriage. 21. Look most at your Encouragements. 22. Use not the difficulty in the way to reason against the work. 23. Labour to harden your selves by faith against all difficulties

Helps to put on Faith in any undertaking. 1. Set before you the example of your great Captain Jesus Christ. 2. Make preparation for the work of Faith by Humiliation. 3. Renew your Faith in the Covenant of Grace. 4. In difficult times, set Faith on work to purifie the heart. 5. Take heed of shifting waies and dependances. 6. Set loose from your own ends. 7. Cast your selves upon the word of God. 8. Plead the word with God in prayer. 9. Refuse no meanes that God puts into your hands. 10. Do nothing with a slavish spirit 11. Be not discouraged by miscarriages that are past 12. Take heed of the disturbance of passion in your work. 13. Observe the dependances one work hath upon another. 14. Lisson not to Temptations. 15. Take heed of perverse reasonings. 16. Take heed of disorderly working, in four cases. 17. Ʋse resolution and Courage. 18. Look on your selves as Gods Instruments. 19. Be constant though you find nothing come of it. 20. Encrease not the difficulty by your Carriage. 21. Look most at your Encouragements. 22. Ʋse not the difficulty in the way to reason against the work. 23. Labor to harden your selves by faith against all difficulties