A41527:108
Patience and its perfect work under sudden & sore trialsPatience and its perfect work under sudden & sore tryals
London: printed by S. Simmons for Rob. Duncomb, 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. It is a waiting with quietness. And that's Patience work too. Patience is not an enduring simply by force, (which we call patience per force) but with quietness. In the third of Lament. the ⟨p. 89⟩Church, in her doleful condition, expresseth the actings, and workings of her own soul: Although she speaks in the third person, (which is usual in the Scripture) yet means her self, v. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and QUIETLY WAIT for the salvation of the Lord. This was uttered when she was under the yoke, and so was a fruit of Patience, v. 27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. It is the Nature of Faith to quiet the heart in God, Isaiah 26. 3. Thou wilt keep him 1[in perfect peace,] whose mind is stayed on thee: because he [trusteth in thee.] And chap. 30. 30. In quietness and [confidence] shall be your [strength.] And when Faith hath wrought Patience, it quiets the heart much more. Patience speaks quietness in the very sound of it. And the reason is, because it hath a strength accompanies ⟨p. 90⟩it, 1 Col. 11. [Strengthened] with all might unto [all Patience] and long-suffering. And thence so far forth as Faith and Patience do strengthen the heart, so far we are able to bear, and that with quietness. Let not your hearts be troubled, saith Christ, John 14. Why? You believe in God, believe also in me, Faith on them will cause trouble to fly away. Which is a great part of Christs meaning, when he says, in patience possess your Souls, that […] dwell quietly in your own Spirits, as a man doth in his house, which our Law terms his Castle.
2. It is a waiting with quietness. And that's Patience work too. Patience is not an enduring simply by force, (which we call patience per force) but with quietness. In the third of Lament. the ⟨p. 89⟩Church, in her doleful condition, expresseth the actings, and workings of her own soul: Although she speaks in the third person, (which is usual in the Scripture) yet means her self, v. 26. It is good that a man should bothhope and QUIETLY WAIT for the salvation of the Lord. This was uttered when she was under the yoak, and so was a fruit of Patience, v. 27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoak in his youth. It is the Nature of Faith to quiet the heart in God,