Patience and its perfect work under sudden & sore trialsPatience and its perfect work under sudden & sore tryals

I Come secondly to POSITIVE ACTS, and workings of Patience, which are many. To begin with the lowest, and so rise to the higher.

§. 1. Patience includes, and comprehends an Act of [WAITING] upon God, and his good pleasure. Waiting is an act of Faith continued, or lengthened out: and where Faith would of it self be short-winded, Patience ekes it out. The daughter helps the Mother, ⟨p. 88⟩with an expectation of an happy issue. 5. Jam. You find waiting involved in Patience as an eminent act thereof, v. 7. Be [patient] therefore, Brethren, unto the coming of the Lord: behold the Husbandman [waiteth] for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long [patience] for it, until he receive the early, and latter rain. Look how and in what manner the Husbandman waits, so he sets out, and exhorts a Christian Patient man should do. Mic. 7. 7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord, [I will wait] for the God of my Salvation, my God will hear me, &c. UNTIL he plead my cause, and execute judgement for me, &c. v. 9.

§. 1. Patience includes, and comprehends an Act of [WAITING] upon God, and his good pleasure. Waiting is an act of Faith continued, or lengthened out: and where Faith would of it self be short-winded, Patience eeks it out. The daughter helps the Mother, ⟨p. 88⟩with an expectation of anhappy issue. 5. Jam. You find waiting involved in Patience as an eminent act thereof, v. 7. Be [patient] therefore, Brethren, unto the coming of the Lord: behold the Husbandman [waiteth] for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long [patience] for it, until he receive the early, and latter rain. Look how and in what manner the Husbandman waits, so he sets out, and exhorts a Christian Patient man should doe. Mic. 7. 7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord, [I will wait] for the God of my Salvation, my God will hear me, &c. ƲNTIL he plead my cause, and execute judgement for me, &c. v. 9.