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

For as this Patience is to be an [All Patience,] or else it hath not its perfect work: so this MIGHT, it must be an [all might] you must be strengthened with, unto such A Patience, of you will not be perfect at it. That MIGHT you had in such or such a Trial will not serve to strengthen you against the next trial that shall come: But you must still have a new special might for every new trial. Your dependence, therefore is great upon God, for this perfect work of Patience: And yet your encouragements are great. For as it must be, that, if God will please to strengthen us, under any great unusual Tentations, that he should put forth no less then this [Glorious power:] So we ⟨p. 167⟩have heard, how, in our Apostle, he hath promised, he will give it; and give it freely and liberally to them, that make it their main, constant, earnest business, to ask it: And therefore, his Grace (if applied to) is engaged to put this POWER forth.

For as this Patience is to be an [All Patience,] or else it hath not its perfect work: so this MIGHT, it must be an [all might] you must be strengthened with, unto such A Patience, of you will not be perfect at it. That MIGHT you had in such or such a Triall will not serve to strengthen you against the next triall that shall come: But you must still have a new speciall might for every new triall. Your dependance, therefore is great upon God, for this perfect work of Patience: And yet your encouragements are great. For as it must be, that, if God will please to strengthen us, under any great unusual Tentations, that he should put forth no less then this [Glorious power:] So we ⟨p. 167⟩have heard, how, in our Apostle, he hath promised, he will give it; and give it freely and liberally to them, that make it their main, constant, earnest business, to ask it: And therefore, his Grace (if applyed to) is engaged to put this POWER forth.

It cannot but be a great support, to a weak heart, that finds it self so remote and distant from such a work of Patience; and weak also in comparison of finding such an inward might, that it should have Ground and Cause to think and to believe, that Gods glorious power is engaged most freely, to be abundantly and readily put forth, if continued to be sought unto. Why, this (says the weak heart) will do it: namely, this glorious power: And I have found by some Trials already, that the strong God and a weak heart will be too hard for any thing; yea, for the whole World.