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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.
Direction, 8.
Eighthly, Take heed of giving the least way to any lusting of thy heart after former corruptions, Exod. 16.3.4. They would be lusting after their Onions and Flesh pots in Egypt, and so were ready to commit sin. So many, when God is in the way of working his grace, they are ready to think what they had formerly, and they were not so strictly bound before, & they have some hankerings of heart after former lusts: And though thou darest not conclude I will go and commit such and such sins, I say though thou doest not conclude, yet thy heart and thoughts have some hankerings after them; take heed of that.
Eightly, Take heed of giving the least way to any lusting of thy heart after former corruptions, Exod. 16.3.4. They would be lusting after their Onions and Flesh pots in Egypt, and so were ready to commit sin. So many, when God is in the way of working his grace, they are ready to think what they had formerly, and they were not so strictly bound before, & they have some hankerings of heart after former lusts: And though thou darest not conclude I wil go and commit such and such sins, I say though thou doest not conclude, yet thy heart and thoughts have some hankerings after them; take heed of that.