Master Bezaes household prayers translated out of French into EnglishMaister Bezaes houshold prayers translated out of French into English

The sixteenth Prayer, For obtaining the Virtue of Patience.

The sixteenth Prayer, For obtaining the Vertue of Patience.

Al things written, are for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope, patient in tribulation, persevering in prayer. Rom. 4. & 12.

Al things written, are for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might haue hope, patient in tribulation, perseuering in praier. Rom. 4. & 12.

O GOD of patience, and of all consolation, the just dispenser both of calamities and benefits, and that all to one end, evermore happy to those whom thou lovest in thy eternal son, our Lord Jesus Christ, as there is nothing in thy word, but serveth to our learning, and to the guiding of our temporal life, as a means to obtain the possession of heavenly ⟨image 109⟩joys: so doeth it principally insist in this, to lift up our hearts to an earnest meditation, and firm expectation of eternal life, standing us in stead, in regard of the same, among the thorns of this world, to the attaining of a constant patience, and therein confirming us by holy consolations, to the end, that having done thy will, O Lord, we may reap thy promise. This virtue therefore is the firm pillar of our hope, ⟨image 109⟩and which teacheth us, not to love the things of the earth, as any felicity, but constantly to look up into heaven, where our peace and joy doth remain. But because the effect of so holy a resolution doeth far surmount our own forces. I beseech thee, (my God) to grant me this true patience of the faithful, which is so necessary for me, namely with a meek and moderate heart, to bear all adversity, also that I may learn to humble