The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Is it Faith that delivers from this spiritual Egypt: Hence let us see the ground of the Miscarriages of most people in their deliverances from spiritual Egypt: Many people by the word, by the Ministry of the Law, they come to see their bondage, and woeful wretched estate, & their consciences are much troubled, but they miscarry ⟨p. 191⟩and it appears in the end that they were never delivered from the bondage of Egypt, but they lived, and died, in Egypt, and perished Eternally. They were come near to Canaan, and yet they perished, and never come to Canaan, because it is not Faith that delivered them, they were not acquainted with the mystery of the Gospel, and the covenant of Grace: they must abstain from Sin, be no more drunkards, and Swearers, and Adulterers, and Sabbath breakers: They abstain from them, and their Religion is a mere natural work, and there they quiet themselves, and think they are delivered: But the glorious work of God in Faith, is not mighty and powerful upon their hearts carrying their hearts to God in Christ in the way of the Gospel, and discovering the mysteries of the Gospel: and therefore they are not delivered.

Is it Faith that delivers from this spiritual Egypt: Hence let us see the ground of the Miscarriages of most people in their deliverances from spiritual Egypt: Many people by the word, by the Ministry of the Law, they come to see their bondage, and woful wretched estate, & their consciences are much troubled, but they miscarry