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

§. A seventh Act, or Work of Patience is, it causeth the Soul to sanctify God in a mans heart, all sorts of ways. I shall still instance (as I have done) more specially in Job's carriage, whose Patience is so cried up, by our Apostle: When his outward losses of children, &c. had their full accomplishment, and the sad tidings ⟨p. 103⟩thereof had filled his ears, and heart, (chap. 1.) by messenger after messenger, till he had no more to lose, the text tells us, v. 20. He fell down on the ground, AND WORSHIPPED. He had been frequent in worshipping afore, and that upon occasion of his children, that they might not sin, so you read v. 5. but all those, his foregone worship, sacrifices, and prayers, could not prevail with God, to preserve them, nor his goods neither. But now when they are all gone, the first thing he does, is, He falls down and worships.

§. A seventh Act, or Work of Patience is, it causeth the Soul to sanctifie God in a mans heart, all sorts of ways. I shall still instance (as I have done) more specially in Job's carriage, whose Patience is so cryed up, by our Apostle: When his outward losses of children, &c. had their full accomplishment, and the sad tidings ⟨p. 103⟩thereof had filled his eares, and heart, (chap. 1.) by messenger after messenger, till he had no more to lose, the text tells us, v. 20. He fell down on the ground, AND WORSHIPPED. He had been frequent in worshipping afore, and that upon occasion of his children, that they might not sin, so you read v. 5. but all those, his foregone worship, sacrifices, and prayers, could not prevaile with God, to preserve them, nor his goods neither. But now when they are all gone, the first thing he does, is, He falls down and worships.

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