A41527:152
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.