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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

wickednesses that were in Sodom and Egypt and that are in that place First Antichrist is like Egypt in regard of the most gross Idolatries Of all places Egypt was counted the most gross Idolatrous place They did not only worship the Sun Moon Stars as other nations did but Cats and Onions and any base creatures So the Papists worship stocks and stones and all kind of holy Reliques even the haire that came from the taile of that beast that Christ rode on and most base vile things that are too base to abuse an Auditory to rehearse Secondly It is compared to Egypt in respect of the cruelty of the Church of Rome None were so cruel and vild as Egypt And so of all men those that are under Antichrist are more cruel as if they were Messengers came from hell to shew the power of Malignant spirits and therefore they are said to be drunken with blood and so have their clothes died in scarlet with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17.4.5.6 But the chiefe thing I aime at is to shew the bondage Christians are in under antichrist the work of faith in delivering from it The bondage under Antichrist is 1. Outward in Estates and Lives 2. Inward a soul bondage 1. An outward bondage doth not he challenge power over Kings and Princes and to free people from Loyalty to their Princes that except there were a delusion upon the hearts of the great ones upon Earth It were unpossible for them to submit unto that base bondage Many crie out of the Godly that they are no good subjects they do not love to be under government but what do you think of Papists that do teach for to free subjects from their loyalty A Papist hath this expression concerning Antichrist The Pope their head He is the Sheppard and the Kings and Princes are Dogs and if Dogs will do their duty they must be at their Masters command but if they will be lazey and bite and not do as they ought the sheppard must remove them And for their Estates It s a woful estate that Countries are in in regard of their estates I read a speech of Bonner in a preface to the Treatise of Gardener that the Pope had neere as much out of England yeerly as the Revenues of the Crown came to And it was the speech of Innocent the fourth Pope of that name England was his pleasant Garden and a wel that never was drawn dry and in England many things grew abounded and many things were to be had from it So that the estates of men are in great bondage where Antichrist prevails as also the lives and liberties of men 2. But especially the thing which I will a little stick in is the soul bondage thus we have it in Rve. 18.13 The Merchandise was slaves and souls of men So that men that are under Antichrist are slaves and if there were but a true Heroicall spirit in men they would not suffer themselves to be under that slavery though they seem to be the bravest spirits yet being under Antichrist they are slaves And the souls of men are his Merchandise the souls of men are under bondage First This is a base subjection and slavery of the souls of men under Antichrist in that he takes upon him to make Articles of Faith that they are bound in conscience upon paine of Damnation to beleive whatsoever he shal say in his Chaire is infallible what a base bondage is this When as we know what most Abominable Sodomitical Horrible Monsters have been in that Chaire and yet they shall be bound upon paine of damnation to beleeve whatsoever they say is infallible Secondly Whatsoever his decrees are though having no footing in the word they are bound in conscience to obey upon paine of damnation So that if it were possible to obey all Gods Commandements they may be damned for want of obedience to some one of Antichrists comands which must needs be a miserable bondage for any man to make a new command that is not under the command of God and to make damnation to be the punishment of disobedience to it then men are in danger of Damnation a hundred of waies more then for sinning against Gods Law Thirdly Those that are under Antichrist are under great bondage in being kept from the rule of life from the Scriptures Wherein the counsels of Gods will concerning their Eternal Estate are revealed Those that are slaves are kept in dangers and cannot have the priviledges of subjects or of Children So Antichrist keeps all under him in the most base slavery in depriving of them from this priviledg of Children that they cannot know the mind of their Fathers and the great things of God that concerns their Eternal Estate what man that knows any thing of those great things concerning his Eternal Estate would be under that slavery And yet if so be we had continued under the bondage of Antichrist we must have been deprived of this Fourthly If they hear any thing of the word they are bound to take no other interpretation but the Churches the Preists give them though it be never so gross now to bind mens Consciencs to this is a most abinable Bondage And yet what vile Interpretations If it is Blasphemy for the Devil to say he will ascend and be like the highest no less to make God descend to be like the Prince of darkness to set the Kings stamp upon false coyne Now to bind mens consciences to their wicked interpretations of Scripture this is a most abominable bondage 5. This is a great bondage that no Ordinance can be administred but by the power of Antichrist and those he shall give power unto and this is a great bondage to the Church to be stinted in Gods Ordinances They are the Churches priviledges especially that of Prayer the spirit of Prayer and Supplication is one of the especial Priviledges of the Church Gal. 4.6 Because you are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father There he speakes of the liberty of Gods people as they are sons they have the fruit of their son-ship Now when as God doth give his spirit to his Church as part of their liberty for them to be restrained in their liberty to pray just no more then the Pope shal appoint and so to have no Ordinances but according to his power what abominable bondage is this and what heart that knows any true Christian liberty would be in such a bondage 6. He takes upon him power of absolving and binding keeping men under the guilt of sin and loosing of them from it when he pleases from this power over mens consciences is commited all manner of villanie 7. Another Bondage which is greater then all is that he keeps men under the rigor and curse of the Law by keeping men off from Christ and teaching the doctrin of justification to be by the works of the Law he keeps

were another matter if you had gone through those fears and yet were bold but a beleeving soul may say yea Lord the gates of death and the shadow of death hath been in some measure made known to me and yet I am bold The Prophet saith in Jer. 17.17 Be not thou a terror to me for thou art my hope in the day of evil Lord let me be delivered from thy terror and all the world shall not terrifie me Those that have been brought up delicately and know not what any danger means if they heare of any commotion and danger they tremble but those that are used to warrs that continually heate the noise of Cannons and see the affrighting objects and desperate things that are there they are not so soon made affraid because they have been where terrors have been and have been delivered from them and so a beleeving soul hath been acquainted with other manner of terrors than the terrors of men and faith delivering from them will deliver from these Fourthly Faith helps against the feare of men and all dangers and evils by implanting the true feare of God in the soul Where faith comes as it brings all grace with it so it brings the grace of the feare of God and the reason of al disorderly feare in the world is for want of the true fear of God I do not meane the fear of his wrath but that reverence that we owe to God as creatures to the Creator that fear of God wherein a great part of Gods worship consisteth if the soul were possessed with that other fears would vanish As in other afflictions True spiritual joy will overcome carnal joy and the best way to cure carnal joy is to have the heart possessed with spiritual joy many take content in the flesh but they never come to have their carnal joy mortified till their souls be filled with spiritual joy And therefore though in the time of sickness They cry out against their carnal joy it is not mortified but they returne to it again because they had only the conviction of conscience that their carnal joy was naught but had not a contrary stream to fil their hearts And so for sorrow There is no way to mortifie carnal sorrow as to sorrow for sin and so for desires no way to mortifie sinful creature desires as to have desires Sanctified for God As in other afflictions so in that of fear no such way to mortifie carnal sinful fear as to have the true fear of God planted in the heart As Moses when the rod was turned into a Serpent the Magicians turned their rods into serpents but the text saith in Exod. 7.12 that Moses Serpent did devour the Magicians Serpents So there is enough in the true feare of God to take up al the soul that it hath no space for the fear of Man As when God is truly worshipped there he is only worshipped so when God is truly feared there he is only feared and all other fears are in subordination to that Where God is truly feared nothing else is feared and indeed nothing else need be feared As where God is not feared no creature can help us so where God is feared no creature can hurt us in Hosea 10.3 Because we feared not the Lord What then should a King do to us so on the contrary because we feare the Lord what then can a King what can all the power in the world do against us Fiftly Faith doth discover unto the soul that it hath more with it than against it You know the Prophets man was affraid when he saw their enemies about them ready to apprehend them the Prophet prayed to the Lord to open his eyes and to let him see in 2. Kings 6.16.17 There were more with him than against him So till a mans eyes are opened by faith he may see many enemies against him to cause fear but when God doth open the eyes of his Soul to see more with him than against him all fears are gone It sees al the Attributes of God all the waies of Gods Providence all Angels all creatures working for the good of it and so it sees more with it then against it If a child or man be alone in danger he is affraid but when he comes into the company of his freinds that hath more with him than against him he is not affraid So by the eye of faith we see more with us than against us and that frees from feare Sixthly Faith keeps from feare by bringing in the spirit of Jesus Christ into the Soul and makes the Soul partaker of the spirit of Christ Now Christ is called the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah Revel 5.5 He was full of courage and did not feare any thing which opposed him in his way now every Christian doth partake of the Lion-like spirit of Christ and hath something of it in him and that puts strength courage into him In Isa 11.2 We read of the spirit of Christ that he was anointed withal the spirit of wisdom and understanding spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledg and the fear of the Lord. Wheresoever the spirit of Christ is there is a spirit of might and strength that will not easily yeeld to feare It is a sign of a poor low spirit to ly down and feare every thing that is never so little feareful but a spirit that is magnanimous and a raised spirit wil not easily feare The spirit of Christ is a magnanimous glorious spirit he hath the same spirit with his Father and so those that are Christs come to have the same spirit of the Son and of the Father with them And therefore saith Saint Paul in 2 Tim. 1.7 We have not received the Spirit of fear but of power The Spirit of Christ hath a great deal of power and strength in it and when faith brings in the spirit of Christ it must needs help against fear Seventhly Faith helps against feare by taking off the heart from the creature and from all the comforts that are in it Why doth a man feare but because he thinks the creature wil take away some comfort from him now if the heart be taken off from the creature and the comforts of it and so from creature evils neither esteeming the one nor accounting much of the other there is not much cause why he should feare now faith takes off the heart from the creature In Revel 12.11 It is spoken of those that overcome Antichrist that they loved not their lives and if they were taken off from the love of life then by consequence they were taken of from the love of any creature It is a notable speech that Chrisostome hath concerning a worldly man None more miserable and more feareful than a man that is fastned to earthly things for saith he he doth continually live the life of care and of trembling but when faith comes it takes off the heart from being fastned to the creature and