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

how that it was HE, had stirred up the Spirits of these wicked One• against him; and found tha• himself had to do with Go• alone: And then, he was […] and silent indeed, to purpose. An• truly his heart at that time ([…] the occasion were, that of Shime• and Absalom) had been wrought up into as blessed a frame of submission to God, as ever afore, […] after, in all his life time, as hi• words (in that chapter afore mentioned) do declare, 2 Sam• 15. 25, 26. And David said, if shall find favour in the eyes o• the Lord, he will bring me again and show me both it, (viz. th• ⟨p. 95⟩Ark) and his Habitation: BUT IF HE THUS SAY, I HAVE NO DELIGHT IN THEE: [BEHOLD HERE I AM, LET HIM DO TO ME, AS SEEMETH GOOD UNTO HIM.] He herein perfectly gives up himself to Gods good pleasure. And it is as if he had said; If it be good in his eyes so to deal, it shall be so in mine; I wholly give my self up unto whatever his design is upon me: Yea, he casts away himself into the supposition of Gods having no delight in him; which is the most afflicting supposition, a Godly man can make to himself, of all other: so perfectly did his will apply it self to God his will. He had professed his waiting on God just before in that Psalm; Now Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in thee. And now he adds [I am] dumb, so for the present, and [I will be Dumb] so for the future: ⟨p. 96⟩I will never open my mouth about it. Piscator and the Dutch Annotator read it thus, in both Tenses.

how that it was HE, had stirred up the Spirits of these wicked One• against him; and found tha• himself had to doe with Go• alone: And then, he was and silent indeed, to purpose. An truly his heart at that time ( the occasion were, that of Shime and Absalom) had been wrough up into as blessed a frame of submission to God, as ever afore, after, in all his life time, as hi words (in that chapter afore mentioned) doe declare, 2 Sam 15. 25, 26. And David said, if shall find favour in the eyes o the Lord, he will bring me agai and shew me both it, (viz. th