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

§. A second Adjunct or Property which adds a perfection to all these, is when the practice of it is DURABLE, and hath some constancy in it.

§. A second Adjunct or Property which adds a perfection to all these, is when the practice of it is DVRABLE, and hath some constancy in it.

As first, Not by fits only. That was Jonahs fault. Oh he was a Broken humble man when in the Whales belly: but how outrageous, when out! In Moses, Patience had its perfect work, in respect of the constant exercise of that Grace: And therefore it was he had the honour to be styled the meekest man on Earth: And truly it was not that meekness of his natural Temper; nor merely as a moral virtue in him, •or which he is so extolled: though these might contribute thereto: But it was a Grace that was Spiritual in him, the Grace •f meekness, and consequently •f Patience, which the holy ⟨p. 130⟩Ghost had wrought in him, and which he by sufferings had learned. And my reason among others, principally is, that he was a Type of Christ therein, according as Gods promise was t• raise up a Prophet like unto Moses; Like, as in other Eminences, so especially in this Grace; for which as Moses is commended there, so Christ in the Evangelists; and therein proposeth himself as an example, Learn of me for I am meek, &c. Now how CONSTANTLY did Moses, bear […] along with that perverse, murmuring, and rebelling Nation both against God and himself with an invincible Patience and still interceded for them and thus Christ doth with us, and for us. And although we rea• how Moses was, and could b• sometimes angry, yea, exceeding wroth, as the words are, (where•• I gave the collection out of Ainsworth) ⟨p. 131⟩