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IS a man, through multitude of troubles, almost wrought to impatience; and to repine at the providence of GOD; that disposeth no more ease? Let him fetch an herb out of the Garden to cure this malady; Bulapathum, the herb Patience. The Adamant serves not for all seas; but Patience is good for all estates. Gods purpose cannot be eluded with impatience: and man under his hand, is like a bird in a net; the more he struggles, the faster he is. Impatience regards not the highest but secondary causes: and so bites the stone in stead of the thrower. If our inferior strike us, we treble revenge. If an equal, we requite it. If a superior, we repine not: or if we mutter, yet not utter our discontent. Think whose hand strikes: it is Gods. Whether by a Pleurisy, or a Fever, or a Sword, or what ever other instrument. The blow was his, whatsoever was the weapon. And this wound will not be cured, unless by applying the herb Patience.

IS a man, through multitude of troubles, almost wrought to impatience; and to repine at the prouidence of GOD; that disposeth no more ease? Let him fetch an herbe out of the Garden to cure this maladie; Bulapathum, the herbe Patience. The Adamant serues not for all seas; but Patience is good for all estates. Gods purpose cannot be eluded with impatience: and man vnder his hand, is like a bird in a nette; the more he struggles, the faster he is. Impatience regards not the highest but secondary causes: and so bites the stone in stead of the thrower. If our inferiour strike vs, we trebble reuenge. If an equall, we requite it. If a superior, we repine not: or if wee mutter, yet not vtter our discontent. Thinke whose hand strikes: it is Gods. Whether by a Pleurisie, or a Feuer, or a Sword, or what euer other instrument. The blow was his, whatsoeuer vvas the weapon. And this wound will not bee cured, vnlesse by applying the herbe Patience.

The good man hath such a hand over fortune; knowing who guides and disposeth all events; that no miseries, though they be sudden as well as sharp, can un-heart him. If he must dye, he goes breast to breast with virtue. If his life must ⟨p. 72⟩tarry a further succession of miseries, he makes absent joys present, wants plenitudes; ad beguiles calamity, as good company does the way, by Patience.