A41527:184
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.
II. THE DIRECTION.
Let him ask of God.
Having thus spoken their hearts, as to the fears & apprehensions of themselves in respect of their falling short, of this high duty of Joy and Patience, &c. He now DIRECTS them to ⟨p. 153⟩the most proper and sovereign MEANS, for the obtaining of it, of all other, and that is faithful instant PRAYER. [Let him ask of God,] &c.
HAving thus spoken their hearts, as to the fears & apprehensions of themselves in respect of their falling short, of this high duty of Joy and Patience, &c. He now DIRECTS them to ⟨p. 153⟩the most proper and soveraign MEANS, for the obtaining of it, of all other, and that is faithful instant PRAYER. [Let him ask of God,] &c.
And herein also he speaks the hearts of all true Christians also, even of the weakest: whose refuge in all their wants is to cry to God, for a supply of what they lack: especially, when they feel or are apprehensive of their lack, and want in any Grace, that should help them in time of need. And look what effectual supply of this Grace in Tentations, all the Apostles persuasions alone, would not have effected, That, Faith venting it self, in constant and fervent Prayer, will bring in and obtain; and their hearts will in the end, be raised and wrought up unto: So as they shall be able to abound in this Grace also. Weak Faith, when it cannot