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

AND UPBRAIDETH NOT.

AND ƲPBRAIDETH NOT.

That's a second property or disposition in God & his giving: The sense where of is, First, that when he hath given liberally, never so often, nor so much, yet he upbraideth not, as men are wont to do. Among men, he that is most liberal, yet if the same man he hath formerly given unto, will come often to him to be relieved, in the end he (at least) will excuse himself, or else say, Why do you come so often, thus again and again? Which is a tacit and implicit way of upbraiding or insinuation of foreg on benefits. Surely, ¹Calvin, ⟨p. 159⟩and Aestius, from him, have hit it: who put this scope and drift upon this Clause, That no man should be afraid, or solicitor to come, though never so often, to this free and generous Giver: nor be discouraged within himself, that he should need to come so often to him; nor forbear to continue his incessant importunities, though it be never so long a time, ere he obtains.

THat's a second property or disposition in God & his giving: The sense where of is, First, that when he hath given liberally, never so often, nor so much, yet he upbraideth not, as men are wont to doe. Among men, he that is most liberal, yet if the same man he hath formerly given unto, will come often to him to be relieved, in the end he (at least) will excuse himself, or else say, Why do you come so often, thus again and again? Which is a tacite and implicite way of upbraiding or insinuation of foreg on benefits. Surely, ¹Calvin, ⟨p. 159⟩and Aestius, from him, have hit it: who put this scope and drift upon this Clause, That no man should be afraid, or solicitour to come, though never so often, to this free and generous Giver: nor be discouraged within himself, that he should need to come so often to him; nor forbear to continue his incessant importunities, though it be never so long a time, ere he obtains.