The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

And lastly, Take heed thou be not discouraged, because the means is but weak thou hast to help thee. When they came to Canaan the great City Jericho, what have they to overcome it? Jos. 6.4.5. The Priests must go with Rams-horns and blow seven times about the City and the walls should fall down. A poor weak means, they might say; have we been forty years in the wilderness, and come to the strong City, and have no other means to help us but Rams-horns? yet this is Gods way: If we reason with flesh and blood, when we meet with difficulties, and look ⟨p. 199⟩upon means, We shall turn back again, look not at means, but rest on Faith and that Faith which hath brought thee out of Egypt, will carry thee on: and thus we have finished the First Allegory.

And lastly, Take heed thou be not discouraged, beause the meanes is but weake thou hast to help thee. When they came to Canaan the great City Jericho, what have they to overcom it? Jos. 6.4.5. The Preists must goe with Rams-hornes and blow seven times about the City and the walls should fall down. A poore weake meanes, they might say; have we been fourty yeares in the wilderness, and come to the strong City, and have no other meanes to help us but Rams-hornes? yet this is Gods way: If we reason with flesh and blood, when we meet with difficulties, and look ⟨p. 199⟩