The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

If men be daily provoked and irritated with injuries, and do not come out to revenge, we attribute it either to their Pusillanimity, or to their Impotency; either to their want of courage, or want of Power. But now it is not so with God, His patience is his power. Numb. 14.17, 18. when God had threatened to destroy them, Moses prays to God to forbear them, and he calls that Act of his patience, no less than his power—Now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken—The Lord is long-suffering, &c. where you see, he makes his patience his power. And so it is indeed, if you consider what sin is. Shall I say no more of it, than this, which God saith, Levit. 26.21. It is contrary to God.

If men be daily provoked and irritated with injuries, and do not come out to revenge, we attribute it either to their Pusillanimity, or to their Impotency; either to their want of courage, or want of Power. But now it is not so with God, His patience is his power. Numb. 14.17, 18. when God had threatned to destroy them, Moses prays to God to forbear them, and he calls that Act of his patience, no less than his power—Now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken—The Lord is long-suffering, &c. where you see, he makes his patience his power. And so it is indeed, if you consider what sin is. Shall I say no more of it, than this, which God saith, Levit. 26.21. It is contrary to God.

1 It is contrary to the works of God. ¹As soon as God set up and perfected the frame of the world, sin gave a shrewd shake to all, it unpinned this frame, and had like to have pulled all in pieces again. And had it not been for the promise of Christ, all this frame had fallen in pieces again.