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

And this is evident from that ⟨p. 118⟩place to Timothy (first cited) where it is, that the Apostle useth the same word, on purpose to comfort the Saints, that were in a scant and bare Condition, as to this World, as the Coherence of verse 6, 7, 8, shows, GODLINESS with SELF-SUFFICIENCY (says he) is great gain, (even virtually as much, yea infinitely more then gaining all the World, as Christs speech is) which moreover is spoken with a Connection to these words: For […] brought nothing into this World, And it is certain we carry nothing out. And therefore, if we hav• nothing [but food and raiment, let us therewith be content]; so it follows: And for so much God hath undertaken.

And this is evident from that ⟨p. 118⟩place to Timothy (first cited) where it is, that the Apostle ufoth the same word, on purpose to comfort the Saints, that were in a scant and bare Condition, as to this World, as the Coherence of verse 6, 7, 8, shews, GODLINESS with SELF-SƲFFICIENCY (says he) is great gain, (even virtually as much, yea infinitely more then gaining all the World, as Christs speech is) which moreover is spoken with a Connexion to these words: For 〈…〉 brought nothing into this World, And it is certain we carry nothing ont. And therefore, if we hav• nothing [but food and rayment, let us therewith be content]; so it follows: And for so much God hath undertaken.

And the holy Apostle verifies this in himself, that he had learned thus to be as Content when he wanted, as when he abounded And in this frame we find, elsewhere, ⟨p. 119⟩his mind to have been in the midst of all, not wants only, but pressures of all sorts: Which also shows, that Patience and Endurance, through sufferings, had been his Tutors and Instructors thereunto: For in a Cor. 6. chapter, He having first reckoned up his sufferings, v. 4. and made a Catalogue of them, then in his final conclusion, v. 10. he sums up all in this. As SORROWFUL, yet always REJOICING: [As poor] yet making many rich: As HAVING NOTHING, YET POSSESSING ALL THINGS. In which few words he compendiously speaketh, what either out of that to the Corinthians 9. chap. I have now insisted on, or that Paradox in my Text doth amount unto. For those words [as sorrowful] in respect of divers Temptations [yet always rejoicing], are all one with [Count