A41527:22
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.
He gives them two Grounds: One at the 3. and 4. v. Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let Patience have it's perfect Work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting Nothing. This is a Ground, from what, in this life. The other is at the 12. v. Blessed is the man that endureth tentation: for when he is tried he shall receive the Crown of life. This is the reward that follows in the life to come. In the hope, and expectation of which, you may count it all joy, that Now you are tried: for the end and issue of them is a Crown of Glory, which these do work, as 2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.
He gives them two Grounds: One at the 3. and 4. v. Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let Patience have it's perfect Work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting Nothing. This is a Ground, from what, in this life. The other is at the 12. v. Blessed is the man that endureth tentation: for when he is tryed he shall receive the Crown of life. This is the reward that follows in the life to come. In the hope, and expectation of which, you may count it all joy, that Now you are tryed: for the end and issue of them is a Crown of Glory, which these doe work, as 2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.
§. I Begin with the first, what ground there is in this life, to cause us to rejoice in such tentations. This, in the. 3. and 4. verses. [Knowing] that is deeply considering and weighing this principle, of our Christian profession, that the trying of your faith works Patience. That's one and the first. In which, the Apostle tacitly supposeth this maxim, and builds upon the supposition of it; it lies at the bottom, and yet is enough implied. It is this: That to have our Graces, especially to have our Faith and Patience, tried, and drawn forth and exercised in us, to the glory of God, is the greatest blessedness of a Christian in this life.