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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.
And now we shall speak of this Text in an Allegorical sense two ways: And that.
And now we shal speak of this Text in an Allegorical sense two waies: And that.
1. In regard of the bondage we are in by nature under sin, and Satan as the Israelites were in Egypt under Pharaoh, And as Moses by faith forsook Egypt, so we must be delivered out of this spiritual Egypt, from this spiritual bondage, that we are in by nature, under sin, and Satan, by Faith.
1. In regard of the bondage we are in by nature under sin, and Sathan as the Israelites were in Egypt under Pharoah, And as Moses by faith forsook Egypt, so we must be delivered out of this spiritual Egypt, from this spiritual bondage, that we are in by nature, under sin, and Satan, by Faith.
2. The Scripture compares the power of Antichrist, & the bondage that men are in under Antichrist to Egypt Rom. 11.8. There it is called spiritual Sodom: and spiritual Egypt: And as the Israelites by Faith, were delivered from the Bondage they were in, in Egypt: So faith does deliver people from the bondage of Antichrist.