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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.
4. If you break from Antichrist by Faith, it will make you a Separate from the world aswell as Separate from them: Many are Separates from any thing that hath but the least dependency upon Antichristian government but they conform themselves to the world, that there appears no difference between them and the world, in their loose courses: that man that is a conformist to the world, is not a Non-Conformist to Antichrist by Faith.
4. If you break from Antichrist by Faith, it will make you a Separate from the world aswel as Separate from them: Many are Separates from any thing that hath but the least dependancy upon Antichristian government but they conform themselves to the world, that there appears no difference between them and the world, in their loose courses: that man that is a conformist to the world, is not a Non-Conformist to Antichrist by Faith.
5. If Faith take you off from the bondage under Antichrist it will take you off from the bondage under any lust. That man that hath not the power of Faith, to take him off from any Lust, That man is not by Faith taken off from the bondage of Antichrist. If Faith deliver from the bondage under Antichrist, it will deliver from the bondage under Sin, and Satan, and therefore though men do cry out of the bondage of Antichrist never so much, and yet they go on under the bondage of any Lust, it is not of Faith.
5. If Faith take you off from the bondage under Antichrist it wil take you off from the bondage under any lust. That man that hath not the power of Faith, to take him off from any Lust, That man is not by Faith taken off from the bondage of Antichrist. If Faith delivere from the bondage under Antichrist, it will deliver from the bondage under Sin, and Sathan, and therefore though men do crie out of the bondage of Antichrist never so much, and yet they go on under the bondage of any Lust, it is not of Faith.