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Chron.a8.
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I.
Ephefian.r,Chap,G.
VER,io
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at
the doore;
then we are
moyled
and deeper often
in
the
fin
we
fled
from, thenbefore. While
I was
muffing,
the
fire
brake
forth,
then
fpakc
I
with my tongue,
Pfal.
39.
3.
Wemuft
not thinke this ftrange;
but though we
be beaten
on our knees,yet go
ftil
from
Egypt the
king
-
dome
of
darkeneffe
to the
glorious inheritance
of
the
Saints
in
light.
2.
This
Both
Phew
fuch
whole
courfe
is
cleare
and even,
goe
(moothly away with
all
their enterprifes,
that they
are taken
of
the
Devill to doe
his
will
:
for
if
they did
not
pleafe
him, then
he would
have
a
laying to
them.
Now
particularly
in
t
üs ver
f: two
things
mull
be
opened.
1.
That
Chriflians
mull
have
a
refolutien
in their
corirfes.
Secondly
who
it
is,
or upon
what
flrength it
is
we
muff
be
coal-
For
the
firft,
the Apoftle teacheth
fo much,
i Cor.
16.
t3.
Watch
ye,
gland
fall,
quit
your
felves
like men:
he
Both
call upon
us
to
be
valorous,
like
as
/Dab
exhorted
his
fouldiers fighting for their
country,
z
Sam.
t o.
12.
And
of
the Chriftians,
It is
faid,
they
did
with
full pur-
pofe
of
heart cleave unto the Lord
:
and
the
felfe fame fpirituall
for-
titude
is
ncceffary
in
the things we undertake
or
fuffer,
if
we meane
to
goe
through
with them. Take heede therefore
:
for the Lord hath
chofen thee to build the houle
of
his
Sanftuary,
be
thong
therefore,
and doe it. Lake
9.51.
It
is
laid
of
our Saviour
Chrift
when
his
time
was come
to
fuffer, he fet himfelfe fully
to goe
to
Ierufalem.
Now
this
fpirituall
courage dothJhew
it
feelfe
in three
things.
Firft,
it
doth
expell
the
flares
of
cowardife, u'hen
we
fee
great
enemies
againff
us,Deut.zo.
z3.Let
not your hearts
flare
nor be afraid
of
them:
for though
a
man
fee
a
hideous
maffe
of
corruption, yet
(hall it
not
af-
fright him.
2
z.
It
makes
us
not
to
be
difmaide at thedifficulties
that
mette
with us:
thougha
man
come by
knockes,
yet
he
maketh
not
dainties
of
them.
For
Paul
though
he
was driven upon
that
he
would
not,yet
he was
not
difmaid, but
gave
God
thankes
that
the beft part
of
himdid looke ano-
ther way,
and
that Chrift
was
his
righteoufneffe.
3.
3.
It
doth
thew
it
felge in
this,
that
after
we
are foyled,
it
maketh us
renew
our
battell,
and valiantly charge
our enemies
with heft,
affaults.
Iud. 20. 22.
The
men
of
Iliad
plucked
up
their
hearts, (there
is
cou-
rage)
and
renewed
the
battell;
fo Paul,
though the
devil!
did buffet
him againe and againe,yet being couragious,
he
did renew his
ftrength
againft
it
by
often prayer.
This then
doth
rebuke the timoroufneffe
in
us,that when
we
fee
the
manifold enemies, which we have, our hearts melt, and
if
we be foy-
led,'are ready to
caft
away our weapons;
which cowardife doth
en.
courage
the adverfary,
as
courage
doth
daunt
him.
The
Devill
is
like
a
ferpentine
Crocodile
:
the property
of
which
is,
if
one
felloweth,
.it
flyeth
away;
if
one
flye, it
purfueth him
:
refit}
him,
he
(hail
flye;
lbe
afraide, he will
follow.
Menare,
as 3eremie
complaineth,
couragi-
ous
to
doe evill,
but they
have
no
courage
to
doe
good.
If
a
Beare or
Lyon
be
in
the way,
they
will encounter the greateft
diflïculties:
if
one'
vfe.