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

1. The words of this ver• ⟨p. 37⟩Text, may somewhat relieve us hereon: for it is [tentations] at large, that are spoken of; and tentations arising from sudden downfalls into miseries, and so of any kind: he doth not altogether restrain it, to temptations by persecution: (though they are mainly intended:) but it may, and ought to be extended, to other providential occurrences: And the word [Greek or Hebrew] used for Patience, signifieth a remaining under any pressures unbroken, and whole; be they of what kind soever. It respects indeed afflictions mainly, for the Gospel, yet not exclusively, to afflictions in common.

1. The words of this ver• ⟨p. 37⟩Text, may somwhat relieve us hereion: for it is [tentations] at large, that are spoken of; and tentations arising from sudden downfalls into miseries, and so of any kinde: he doth not altogether restrain it, to temptations by persecution: (though they are mainly intended:) but it may, and ought to be extended, to other providential occurrences: And the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 used for Patience, signifieth a remaining under any pressures unbroken, and whole; be they of what kind soever. It respects indeed afflictions mainly, for the Gospel, yet not exclusively, to afflictions in common.

2. In the prosecution of this Argument, the Apostle doth, manifestly, carry in his eye, other Tentations, or sufferings, then from Persecution, as appears from the Examples he allegeth, to press them, to this Patience. ⟨p. 38⟩For among others, and above all others, he brings the instance of Job and His, by Name only, as well as of the Prophets in General, (whom Christ says, they persecuted.) Thus chap. 5. 11. Ye have