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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30570	The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs ; published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1661 (1661)	Wing B6066; ESTC R25757	147,222	223

any thing so we fear the contrary let us but mortify our love to the creature and we shal mortify the fear of the creature 2. Let us get and keep our interest in God and that wil keep us from the fear of the creature 3. Let us labor to see clearly that the cause we are in is Gods Cause 4. Look to the call of that cause though the cause be good if we have not as all to that cause we cannot be helpt against Fear 5. Labor to bring your Hearts to count it Honor and Riches and pleasure enough to be employed in Gods service any way whatsoever comes of it if I should endure such and such troubles in it yet the wil of God be done God cals for my estate and liberty and comfort to be employed this way and that is enough that any thing I have may be employed in Gods way and if it be lost in Gods service it is well lost if the Heart be brought to this disposition it wil not fear the loss of any thing 6. Keep the conscience upright in Gods way Job 11.14.15 If iniquity be in thy hand put it far from thee and let not wickedness dwel in thy tabernacle for then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot yea thou shalt be steadfast and not fear When the Heart begins to decline in the least degree then it is filled with Fear 7. Keep a close and ful and comfortable communion one with another let there be no fear with one another as that is a notable place 1 Cor. 16.10 Concerning the care of Saint Paul over Timothy because he was young and so weak That he might be with the Church without fears As a means to help Timothy in his way against whatsoever troubles he met abroad so whatsoever dangers there be abroad in the world you will find this a notable means to strengthen your hearts to be without fear of all the world to keep close one with another 8. If you will needs fear fear prosperity rather then trouble and indeed there is more cause to fear our ease and our prosperity then to fear any trouble in the world there is more cause to fear the favors of men then their threatnings there is more cause to fear the world when it comes like a Fox then when it comes like a Lyon the joys of this present world are to be feared by a Christian now Christians fear altogether present adversity but you should labor to fear prosperity 9. Lastly consider how little good fear of any creature will do it will never a whit free you from the evil you fear But rather bring it sooner as when Peter was affraid of the waves and affraid of sinking did it help him No it rather brought the waves upon him and so in trouble your fear cannot help you and deliver you but bring trouble sooner upon you And therefore that is an observable note the difference between John and the other disciples when Christ was apprehended all the disciples fled except John and John stood when he was in the Priests Hall and when he was upon the Cross he said to him behold thy Mother so that he was not affraid of his life now their was not one of all the Disciples that fled for there lives but dyed violent Deaths and their lives were taken away and John that did not flee lived fourscore years after Christ and continued in his ministry So that you see God many times will preserve such as are least affraid and let such as are affraid fal into the trouble that they are affraid of at that time they are affraid or afterwards And thus we have finished the second Doctrinal conclusion from these words that faith cures sinful Fear CHAP. 14 Another Doctrine Much difference between Gods peoples spirits at several times Illustrated by examples Reasons 1. From the different dispositions their hearts are in to receive truths Which proceeds from Three Causes First the abatement of the strength that is opposite to that truth Secondly The stirrings or activity of those habits which are sutable to truth Thirdly The prevalences of self-Interest Reas 2. From the different representations of Truth Reas 3. Because the Graces of men do not burn so cleerly and purely at al times Reas 4. From the weakness of Grace the parts and members of it are not consolidated Reas 5. Because our hearts are somtimes filled with more heavenly consolations then at other times Reas 6. From the different breathings of the spirit of God Reas 7. Because men have somtimes a more clear and distinct sight of their call to suffer then at other times 3. Particular directions in this Case Reas 8. The different tempers of mans Body Reas 9. From the difference in the encouraging occurrency of Gods providence WEE come now to the next Doctrinal conclusion which was raised from hence there was a time when Moses was affraid he did forsake Egypt out of fear now Moses by faith did forsake Egypt and was not affraid The Point is Doct. There is a great deal of difference between the Spirits of Gods people at some time from that they are at other times Now Moses seems to have further courage and strength then formerly we have many examples in scripture and dayly experience of this that there is a wonderful difference between the spirits of Gods people at sometimes and at other times As Elijah was a man of mighty courage that could look Ahab on the face and when Ahab said art thou he that troublest Israel nay saith he it is thou and thy Fathers house at another time he fled from Jezebel and God said to him what dost thou here Elijah art thou fleeing from a woman that but the other day hadst such a courage And so David there was a time when David was affraid and behaved himself with much folly in his fear as in the change of his behavior before the King of Gath at another time as in Psalm 23. He would not fear what man could do unto him though he walked in the vally of the shadow of Death And so in many Psalms you have his heart mightily dejected in the beginning of the Psalm and before he had done mightily raised And so Abraham sometime he had mighty strength and confidence of his Faith at other times his faith failed him and he was fain to equivocate and shift for himself And so Jeremiah God said he would make him as a Brazen wal and he would give him a spirit of courage at another time Jeremiah was mightily dejected because of the reproach he met withal and he would speak no more in the name of God unto the people And so Peter there was a time when he was affraid of a poor damsel at other times who so bold as Peter as in Acts 2.14 And so Joseph of Arimathea he was a disciple of Christ but secretly for fear of the Jews but afterward he came boldly and begged the body of Christ at

them under the bondage of the law and under the rigour and curse of the Law and so keeps al that are under him from that precious liberty that Christ hath purchased by his blood to deliver us from the Law And this is a greater burden then the other this is a damnable bondage that doth indanger eternal destruction the other is not so dangerous 8. He takes away al Christian liberty in regard of the use of the Creature restraining the use of the Creature and Time and Place 9. The ninth is the bondage of human Ceremonies we know that is a heavy bondage The bondage of the Ceremonies of the Law was great And the Apostle said Acts 15.10 It was a Yoke that neither they nor their Fathers could beare But the yoak of the Papists is a great deale heavier If we were to chuse to to be under al the Ceremonies of the Law which the Jews were under which the Apostle said was a yoak that we nor our Fathers were able to beare or to be under the Ceremonies of the Papists if we did choose according to wisdom we should rather chuse to be under al the Ceremonies of the Jews Yet if we read the 4. of Gal. we shal see it was a great priviledg to be delivered from them And if we were under the power of any to appoint religious Ceremonies in the Church We have no benefit by the purchase of Christ to deliver us from the Ceremonial Law for it is a great deale better and easier to be under the Ceremonies of the Law then to have any man appoint Ceremonies in several respects 1. Because the Ceremony of the Law was by divine institution but when man appoints Ceremonies they are but human and any man had rather yield and be under the power of Gods appointing Ceremonies then be under the power of men You had rather be under Princes then under meane Officers so you had better be under the power of God then under the power of man yet in the 2. Col. they are called Beggerly rudiments 2. There is a great deale of doubt and scruple about the Ceremonies of men Suppose that upon some distinctions we may yield to human Ceremonies yet it is not without doubt and scruple but under the Law there was no doubt nor scruple and we had better be under a hundred where there is no scruple then under one where there is doubts and scruples 3. Againe Those Ceremonies were typicall and the presence of God might be with them and a spirituall efficacie might be expected but as for the Ceremonies of men there can be no such thing expected with them and therefore it is apparent that the Jews under the Ceremonies of the Law were in a better condition then the Christians should be in now if they were under the power of any to appoint Ceremonies and therefore to be under the power of those that do appoint Ceremonies that is a miserable bondage 10. Again another bondage that they are in is that they are urged to the waies of Idolatry and sin by violence without regarding the weakness of any or seeking to inform any not regarding that place Ezek. 34.4 When God complaines they did Rule his people with Cruelty And if any be weak and desire to be informed they jeer at them and say a prison or a fire or a fagot shall inform them These and many other things might be named to shew the most abominable and vilde bondage that those are in that are under Antichrist but put both together the outward and the inward bondage to be under those that are of such base and vile spirits this is mightily against the spirit of an ingenious man And for a Church of God a thousand Congregations to be under the power of a base filthy abominable Whoremaster that is known to be so to be troubled by him when he please what a most horrible bondage is this And so for any Congregation to be in which there may be thousands of Souls to be under the power of a Tapster or Hostler or any base fellow this is a mighty bondage As now suppose a rich man die and he hath a Kinsman though never so vile and base then his land coming to him he hath the Advowzen of the place then may be he sends two or three hundred miles for a Preist may be one like himself and though he be never such a blasphe men and base fellow and swearer then they not knowing of him and so having nothing to say against him They cannot keep him from the place Now that one though never so wild should have such power to appoint whom he will any drunkard Where master Priest over such a Congregation and they must depend upon him to have the Ordinances of God administred by him this is a sore bondage Bondslaves are fed meerly with Chaffe and brunn so with what chaffe and husks are those fed withal that are under Antichrist Many people are loath to submit to the true government of Christ to the true Ministers of the Gospel if they tell them of any sin they are guilty of their hearts belk and swel and they will not yeild yet they will submit to the officers of Antichrst and they wil rule over them and do with them what they will As Saint Paul saies in 2 Cor. 11.20 For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devoure you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man smite you on the face Other false teachers you can suffer But the true Apostles you cannot suffer them if one come in his own name you receive them I come in my Fathers name and you reject me saies Christ John 5.43 And so many complain of the Ministers of God they take so much upon them they wil not yield to that they say but if you live under Popery you must live under every base preist and what he saies you must believe as your Faith venture your souls upon it without examining of it and you must not manifest any rejection So that is apparent men wil yeild to any things rather then to God rather count the subjection to God bondage then count the subjection to Antichrist bondage rather be servants to Antichrst then servants to God I speak this the rather to see what cause we have to bless God for our deliverance from this And that we may learn to know how to use our liberties This Bondage is worse then the bondage of Egypt 1. Because it is soul bondage and that was but upon the body we do not read that Pharoah or the Egyptians did force them to Idolatry 2. It was not so great bodily bondage they did not destroy them they laid heavy burdens upon them but did not put them to death as Antichrist doth if they wil not submit unto them 3. It was their misery to be under that bondage but not their sin but it is a sin to be