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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.
Some eminent Properties, or ADJUNCTS of Patience, which added, do make it, and its work, Perfect.
Some eminent Properties, or ADJƲNCTS of Patience, which added, do make it, and its work, Perfect.
§. When a mans Spirit is brought to do these things with ease: so as he shall ⟨p. 128⟩not need to chide his Spirit into a Patient frame, nor force himself into it. But like as Ezra is said to be a ready Scribe, Ezra 7. 6. that is, he was perfect at his work; his heart was prepared for it, and inured to it, v. 10. Thus Patience hath had a perfect Work, when it frames the heart to a Readiness to those actings forementioned. Thus the Apostle, Acts 21. 17. I am not only [ready] to be bound, but I am [ready] to dye at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus. His heart was so fully prepared, as he stuck not at all at it; yea, it was an heart-breaking to him, that his friends should offer to dissuade him. What mean you to break my heart? &c. 'Twas his being inured to endurance, and Patience, that had begotten that Habit of it in him: his heart was not to seek for it.
§. WHen a mans Spirit is brought to doe these things with ease: so as he shall ⟨p. 128⟩not need to chide his Spirit into a Patient frame, nor force himself into it. But like as Ezra is said to be a ready Scribe, Ezra 7. 6. that is, he was perfect at his work; his heart was prepared for it, and inured to it, v. 10. Thus Patience hath had a perfect Work, when it frames the heart to a Readiness to those actings forementioned. Thus the Apostle,