The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

I. Then for the forsaking of Egypt, we are all by nature bondslaves to Sin and Satan as the Israelites were to the Egyptians. And Canaan was a Type of Heaven, and the promise of God unto them to bring them unto Canaan, was to set out the condition of Gods people how they should be brought to heaven: All Gods ways towards the Israelites in this work, were Typical to set out further things that were to be afterward. Therefore by faith this Egypt is forsaken, and the souls of Gods people ⟨p. 186⟩are carried on to Canaan, through the Wilderness of this world to heaven by faith, as they were through that Wilderness to Canaan: It must be Faith that must carry through this difficult work.

I. Then for the forsaking of Egypt, we are al by nature bondslaves to Sin and Satan as the Israelites were to the Egyptians. And Canaan was a Tipe of Heaven, and the promise of God unto them to bring them unto Canaan, was to set out the condition of Gods people how they should be brought to heaven: All Gods waies towards the Israelites in this work, were Tipical to set out further things that were to be afterward. Therefore by faith this Egypt is forsaken, and the souls of Gods people ⟨p. 186⟩are carried on to Canaan, through the Wilderness of this world to heaven by faith, as they were through that Wilderness to Canaan: It must be Faith that must carry through this difficult work.

This is the difficult work of all works; the Bondage is the greatest bondage, And therefore the work is the most difficult work that may be. If we consider,