A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of…

2. Another Character of one that has the Grace of Courage, is, That when he seeth his Call Clear, he'll Venture, let the Event be what it may be. He'll discharge his Duty, and leave Events with God. Nothing can move him out of the way of Duty. He stands like a Rock: Putting his Trust in God, he is like a Mountain that cannot be removed. Although' if he persist in what he is called unto, probably it will be prejudicial to his Worldly Interest; he may be a great Loses by it, that ⟨p. 31⟩won't move him out of his way, when he is in the way where the Lord calls him to be, and to abide therein. There are men who will be for Christ's Interest so far as will Comport with their own carnal Interest, but no further. Like that Prince of Navarre, who favoured the Protestant cause, but when Beza advised him to venture himself and to fall in with that Religion, being the only true Religion, He replied, He'd venture out in that Sea so far as he might be sure to come safe ashore, but no further: Thus 'tis with many. But where is the Grace of Courage now! He that has that Grace in Exercise no dangers can affright him out of the way of duty. Did not Pharaoh threaten Moses? but what says the Scripture: Heb. 11. 27. By faith he forsook Egypt, that was when he conducted the Children of Israel as their Leader out of Egypt, no more to return thither, Not fearing the wrath of the King, who had threatened to be his death: He Endured: He persevered in the way of his duty. The Greek word Ekarterese, implies Fortitude of Mind, a Courageous undaunted Spirit! As seeing him who is invisible. The fear of God makes a Christian to be above the fear of man. When the Empress Eudoxa (like Jezebel to the Prophet Elijah) sent a threatening Message to Chrysostom; What should be done to him, Go (said he) tell the Empress that I am afraid of nothing, but of Sinning against God. When there was to be a great Convention in the City of Worms in Germany, ⟨p. 32⟩and the Emperor sent to Luther, that he should appear there, his friends dissuaded him, because he had many Enemies in that City: He replied, these dissuasions are from Satan: I may do a great Service for Christ by bearing witness to his Truth in that august Assembly, and therefore if all the Tiles on the houses in that great City were so many Devils to oppose me, in the the Name of the Lord I will go. This was Courageous and Magnanimous. Therefore,