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II. Our LOVE to God, works PATIENCE.

§. Love to God in us, works Patience, or Faith by Love, a• I showed out of v. 12. Love to God makes us cleave to God, and so to follow him through all weathers and endurances. That ⟨p. 67⟩great Convert (in whom at his Conversion, Faith and Love were so abundant, as 1 Tim. 1. 14.) his Heart through Love to the Name of Christ, caused him, in the highest passion, to utter, What mean you to weep and break my heart? for I am not ready to be [BOUND] only, but also [to DYE] at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus, Acts 21. v. 13. It was Love to that Name that fired him; yea his Love was wrought up to such an intense degree, as he could have wished to have been accurst from Christ for Gods Glory, in the conversion of his brethren, Rom. 9. I wonder how he would have done for Patience under that curse, if in Hell: But that Love which wished that curse, would have wrought it; and so thought he, or he would never have wished this. Upon the like account of Love to this Name, Those two Apostles ⟨p. 68⟩rejoiced to suffer shame for his Name, as Acts 5. 41. Love makes the Glorifying of God, and Christ, and the will of God, which is always for his Glory, dearer then all things to us. Yea, that God should have his Will, for his own Glory, (if it be the will of God) says the Apostle, of our Sufferings, abundantly stills the heart in all. Tis true, I may be punish in my afflictions for my Sin, and I humble my self for that: But beyond that, it is the good pleasure of God so to have it, and I rejoice in [that] says Love, That his Will is done. As truly that 'tis done upon me, as that by me. And, Good is the word of God, in both; and Hallowed be his Name In that