The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

1. Let us set before us the example of our great Captain the Lord Jesus Christ you know what difficult works Christ undertook for the salvation of man, such difficult works as all the Angels in heaven and creatures in the world would have sunk under: But Christ went through them; and there was a work of Faith in Christ that carried him through, though it was not such a work of faith as ours, Justifying Faith, yet he had a Faith, his trust in his father that did help to carry him through great and difficult works. In 2 Heb. 12.13. Christ is propounded as an example unto us, Saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst ⟨p. 167⟩of the Church will I sing praise unto thee: Christ in his own person did praise God, and he sung praises in the hearts of his people, so that by the way, take this as a comfortable note, to encourage us to public duties, while we are praising of God, Christ is praising of God while we are singing of psalms to God in a gracious manner, Christ is praising of God the father. And again I will put my trust in him, it is a speech of Christ unto the Father, Christ put his trust in the Father, and the example of the work of Faith in Christ to carry him through all the works he had to do, is brought as an encouragement unto Christians, to cast their reliance on God the Father, to carry them through all the hard works they have to do. And as Christ did not only praise God in his own person, but in the Church, so Christ did not only in his own person trust in the Father and so was carried through the difficult works he had to do, but he trusted in his Father, in the hearts of his people, that they might be carried through the difficult works they have to do.

1. Let us set before us the example of our great Captaine the Lord Jesus Christ you know what difficult works Christ undertooke for the salvation of man, such difficult works as all the Angells in heaven and creatures in the world would have sunke under: But Christ went through them; and there was a work of Faith in Christ that carried him through, though it was not such a work of faith as ours, Justifying Faith, yet he had a Faith, his trust in his father that did help to carry him through great and difficult works. In 2 Heb. 12.13. Christ is propounded as an example unto us, Saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst