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A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of…
A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of that virtue for all Christians, is described. Delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England. June 5th. 1710. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from I Corinthians]A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of that vertue for all Christians, is described. Delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England. June 5th. 1710. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1710
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In this Chapter we have both the Commission, and the Instructions which God gave to Joshua: He was Commissioned to undertake a great Service for God and for his People, unto which the Lord Encouraged him with a Promise of Success, by means of that divine Protection & Assistance which should be vouchsafed to him. But then he was to observe his Instructions. The first of which is in the Words now before us. The Original Words are very Emphatical. Be thou Strong. Heb. Chazak, denotes a great fortitude of Mind: such a degree of strength as will be Victorious. There is a further Expression of the same importance, Be very Courageous. The Hebrew words, Amatz Meod, which some translate Corroborate valde, denote an exceeding measure of Courage. Joshua was a very Courageous man, nevertheless, the Lord knew that such an Instruction as this was proper for him, and nothing but what he needed.
In this Chapter we have both the Commission, and the Instructions which God gave to Joshua: He was Commissioned to undertake a great Service for God and for his People, unto which the Lord Encouraged him with a Promise of Success, by means of that divine Protection & Assistance which should be vouchsafed to him. But then he was to observe his Instructions. The first of which is in the Words now before us. The Original Words are very Emphatical. Be thou Strong. Heb. Chazak, denotes a great fortitude of Mind: such a degree of strength as will be Victorious. There is a further Expression of the same importance, Be very Couragious. The Hebrew words, Amatz Meod, which some translate Corrobora te valde, denote an exceeding measure of Courage. Joshua was a very Couragious man, nevertheless, the Lord knew that such an Instruction as this was proper for him, and nothing but what he needed.
The Doctrinal Truth which may be insisted on from the Words, is,
That the Servants of GOD (some of them especially) stand in need of a great measure of Fortitude and Courage.