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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.
For Proof: That Patience is the eminent perfection of a Christian.
For Proofe: That Patience is the eminent perfection of a Christian.
§. I Take the Instance of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. What was Christs perfection? He had been perfect in all active obedience, complete in all Graces, yet the Glory of his perfection is put upon his sufferings and his Patience, Heb. 2. 10. For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many Sons unto Glory, to make the Captain of ⟨p. 22⟩their salvation [PERFECT through sufferings.] This of Patient enduring was, that, which enhanced and exalted his obedience so, Phil. 2. He humbled himself and was obedient to death, &c. This of patient enduring was obedience learned, Heb. 5. 8. Though he was a Son, yet he [learned obedience] by what he suffered. The Active part of obedience was natural to him, he being as the Natural Son, the Holy One of God: having the Law of God in his heart, and it 1was his delight, his meat and drink to do his will. That is, this was natural to him: But for him to suffer, who was the Son, and so to be patient in suffering, who was so great a Person, this was to be learned, as that which was improper for such a Person, The Son: And yet (as I may say) this perfected the natural accomplishments of him; this was a ⟨p. 23⟩lesson out of the rode, utterly uncouth, and extravagant; He must go to school therefore to learn this: For so that text implies, this he was to learn, as that which would perfect him, above all. And so indeed to this purpose, it follows in the 9. ver. Being made perfect, that is by what he suffered (as in the verse afore, and chap. 2. He had also said.) And as that which did perfect him, more then all his other obedience, and rendered him more acceptable to his Father: Now it was his Patience, and enduring, wherein, that his obedience Principally lay: which accordingly is so often spoken of him, as