The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

6. That Soul that is taken from under the power of Antichrist by Faith, is subject to the power and government of Christ and the Word: If Faith takes from the one, it puts under the other: nothing but the Word can be the ground of Faith, and if Faith takes a Soul from under the bondage of Antichrist, Such a Soul finds the Word comes with divine power, and majesty upon the heart; and it lays a trembling heart under the power and majesty of the Word, and it dares not go from it, no not in no other thing. You plead for the Word in such and such things, but there are other things you do not yield to the power of the Word in, this is very suspicious: Those that by Faith are brought from the power of Antichrist, their hearts are put mightily under the power of the Word, and they lie with trembling spirits before the majesty and Authority of the word.

6. That Soul that is taken from under the power of Antichrist by Faith, is subject to the power and goverment of Christ and the Word: If Faith takes from the one, it puts under the other: nothing but the Word can be the ground of Faith, and if Faith takes a Soul from under the bondage of Antichrist, Such a Soul finds the Word comes with divine power, and majesty upon the heart; and it laies a trembling heart under the power and majesty of the Word, and it dares not goe from it, no not in no other thing. You plead for the Word in such and such things, but there are other things you do not yield to the power of the Word in, this is very suspitious: Those that by Faith are brought from the power of Antichrist, their hearts are put mightily under the power of the Word, and they ly with trembling spirits before the majesty and Authority of the word.

7. If it be Faith that takes off the Heart, such a one is not content that he is taken from under the Antichristian government, unless he meets with Christ in the Ordinances: he does not content it self with the bare husks, and to make all his Religion to consist merely in Church discipline, and Church constitution, and to think therefore, he hath Religion enough, because he hath the Ordinances, and yet never finds any panting of Heart, after union and communion with Christ Jesus in this way of Church Government, but goes on from year to year, merely in the outward performances of Religion. I do not speak against the thing it self but to show it is not of Faith, if men do not pant after union with Christ, if they be not sensible of the want of it, and do not labour for the enjoyment of it.