A Saint Indeed

This will calm and meeken our Spirits quickly; never did a wicked tongue try the patience of a Saint more than Davids was tried by that railing Shimei: yet the Spirit of this good man was not at all poisoned with revenge, though he goes along cursing and casting stones at him all the way: yea, though Abishai offered David, if he pleased, the head of that enemy; but the King said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zerviah? So let him curse▪ because the Lord hath said unto him, curse David; Who shall then say, wherefore hast thou done so? it may be God uses him as his rod to lash me, because I by my sin made his enemies to blaspheme him: and shall I be angry with the rod? how irrational were that? this also was it that quieted Job he doth not rail, and vow revenge upon the Chaldeans and Sabeans, but eyes God as the orderer of those troubles, and is quiet, The Lord hath ⟨p. 127⟩taken away, blessed be his name, Job 1. 21.

This will calm and meeken our Spirits quickly; never did a wicked tongue try the patience of a Saint more than Davids was tryed by that railing Shimei: yet the Spirit of this good man was not at all poi•oned with revenge, though he goes along cursing and casting stones at him all the way: yea, though Abishai offered David, if he pleased, the head of that enemy; but the King said, What have I to doe with you, ye sons of Zerviah? So let him curse▪ because the Lord hath said unto him, curse David; Who shall then say, wherefore hast thou done so? it may be God uses him as his rod to lash me, because I by my sin made his enemies to blaspheme him: and shall I be angry with the rod? how irrational were that? this also was it that quieted Iob he doth not rail, and vow revenge upon the Caldeans and Sabeans, but eyes God as the orderer of those troubles, and is quiet, The Lord hath ⟨p. 127⟩taken away, blessed be his name, Job 1. 21.