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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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USE. II. What shall be thought of Spiritual Cowards? That Live so, and Die so. This we must think of them, that they are not true Christians: For the Grace of Courage is inseparable from real Christianity. Christ has said, Whoever does not bear his Cross cannot be my Disciple, Luk. 14. 27. And again, v. 33. Whosoever be […] that forsakes not all that he has cannot be my Disciple. This no man will consent unto which has not the Grace of Courage in his Soul. Without Courage the Cross cannot be endured. If a man will be a Christian he must fight Manfully ⟨p. 34⟩under Christs banner to the last gasp, and not desert his Cause when it comes to a battle. A Christian is a Martyr in Voto, willing to part with what he has, Life and all if Christ shall call for it. Act 21. 13. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to dye for the Name of the Lord Jesus. And who are Spiritual Cowards?
USE. II. What shall be thought of Spiritual Cowards? That Live so, and Dy so. This we must think of them, that they are not true Christians: For the Grace of Courage is inseparable from real Christianity. Christ has said, Whoever does not bear his Cross cannot be my Disciple, Luk. 14. 27. And again, v. 33. Whosoever be 〈…〉 that forsakes not all that he has cannot be my Disciple. This no man will consent unto which has not the Grace of Courage in his Soul. Without Courage the Cross cannot be endured. If a man will be a Christian he must fight Manfully ⟨p. 34⟩under Christs banner to the last gasp, and not desert his Cause when it comes to a battel. A Christian is a Martyr in Voto, willing to part with what he has, Life and all if Christ shall call for it. Act 21. 13. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to dye for the Name of the Lord Jesus. And who are Spiritual Cowards?