The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

6. Faith discovers to the Soul the reality, and certainty of all the admirable and glorious promises that are in the Gospel, made unto the true Church of God: Promises of the glorious presence of God with his people; ⟨p. 210⟩and promises of abundance of spiritual good, as it might ask half an hour to show some excellent promises that are made to the Church, which a carnal Eye doth not see: But Faith discovers there is abundance of certainty and reality in them, and when by Faith they see them, this takes off, and enables them to go through any difficulties to be partakers of them.

6. Faith discovers to the Soul the reality, and certainty of all the admirable and glorious promises that are in the Gospel, made unto the true Church of God: Promises of the glorious presence of God with his people; ⟨p. 210⟩and promises of abundance of spiritual good, as it might ask half an hour to shew some excellent promises that are made to the Church, which a carnal Eie doth not see: But Faith discovers there is abundance of certainty and reality in them, and when by Faith they see them, this takes off, and enables them to go through any difficulties to be partakers of them.

7. Again, Faith does discover the fearful threats against those that follow Antichrist, and those (Revel. 14.9, 10.) that do receive the mark of the Beast but in their hand secretly: they shall have their portion in the Lake that burns for ever, and shall be cast out from the presence of the Lord. They that read these threats make nothing of them; but when they read them by Faith then the soul trembles, and fears, till it comes from under that bondage, it hears a voice continually crying to it: Revel. 18.4