A41527:151
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
PATIENCE AND ITS PERFECT WORK: Meditated, and Written that Week the… › Section 4: IIII. Section.
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.
IIII. Section.
Although I have dispatched the subject I first intended, yet I find my self obliged to proceed a little further in the opening the fifth verse, in order unto a relieving against a great DISCOURAGEMENT, which I know hath or may have been in many Readers hearts, whilst I have been thus discoursing these great things, about the Perfect Work of Patience, &c. And also to leave behind me, the most apposite DIRECTION, how to obtain this Patience, in the perfect work of it: and I will not go out of my Text for these things, neither.
ALthough I have dispatched the subject I first intended, yet I find my self obliged to proceed a little further in the opening the fifth verse, in order unto a relieving against a great DISCOƲRAGEMENT, which I know hath or may have been in many Readers hearts, whilst I have been thus discoursing these great things, about the Perfect Work of Patience, &c. And also to leave behind me, the most apposite DIRECTION, how to obtain this Patience, in the perfect work of it: and I will not goe out of my Text for these things, neither.
An Exposition of the 5. verse.
If any of you lack Wisdom, let him ask of GOD, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.