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

But you will say, all this […] done, when the Soul […] ⟨p. 97⟩hope, as appears in those words, in that 3. of Lam. v. 26. It is good that a man should hope and wait quietly, and v. 29. He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there may be hope. and indeed David in the 29. Psal. and likewise in those places cited of him, out of Samuel, he had hope concerning that particular thing he yet submitted unto God in, as at the seventh verse of that Psalm appears. And now Lord what do wait for? [my hope is in thee.] And then mentions the deliverance where in his hope lay, in v. 8, 9, 10. And thus when Shimei curst him, his Soul in like manner did gather up hope the more upon it, that God would bless him, 2 Sam. 16. 12. IT MAY BE the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day. But yet I confess his hope here, and the Churches afore, ⟨p. 98⟩did each rise up but to an [it may be.]

But you will say, all this 〈…〉 done, when the Soul 〈…〉 ⟨p. 97⟩hope, as appears in those words, in that 3. of Lam. v. 26. It is good that a man should hope and wait quietly, and v. 29. He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there may be hope. and indeed David in the 29. Psal. and likewise in those places cited of him, out of Samuel, he had hope concerning that particular thing he yet submitted unto God in, as at the seventh verse of that Psalm appears. And now Lord what doe wait for? [my hope is in thee.] And then mentions the deliverance where in his hope lay, in v. 8, 9, 10. And thus when Shimei curst him, his Soul in like manner did gather up hope the more upon it, that God would bless him, 2 Sam. 16. 12. IT MAY BE the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day. But yet I confess his hope here, and the Churches afore, ⟨p. 98⟩