2. Envy and Passionate Anger: 1. Envy, which is apt to rise, when others have no such afflictions, or losses. As that such and such an one, and of my rank, should escape with his goods, &c. when the loss falls heavy on me, saith the sad heart: This secretly regreets. Good people are greatly apt to this. The Spirit that is in [US] (in us Saints) lusteth to envy. But God, in the end, gives more Grace, that is, when men are humbled (as there, tis said) and broken; which is usually, when they have been exercised with great sufferings. The different condition of the holy Apostles, and some other Christians, in those primitive times, gives demonstration of such a Patience in this case. There were no men ⟨p. 78⟩so eminent for sufferings and Patience, next the Lord Christ, as the Apostles were, who yet viewing other Christians, (as take the Corinthians, 1 Cor 4. 8, 9.) how they were full, &c. Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have Reigned as King• without us. It was a Cit• very rich, and the Christian• in it, had a fullness of outward things, when he wrote this they were full and rich: Bu• as for us, (says he) God hath […] forth us Apostles last, as it wer• appointed to death, &c. Ye are honourable, but we are despised; […] both hunger and thirst, and ar• naked, and are buffeted, and hav• no certain dwelling place, and labour working with our hands: being reviled, we bless: being persecuted, we suffer it: being defame• we entreat: we are made as th• filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto thi• ⟨p. 79⟩day. And yet he did not at all envy this their fullness in the least; No, he wisheth them all true prosperity, would to God ye did reign, v. 8. that is, in true and spiritual respects; he wisheth them all good rather, in all inward enjoyments, of God and Christ, together with their outward riches, &c. Now what was it, that had so much rooted up envy, &c. in him, and the other his fellow Apostles? It was his sufferings, and wants, and their being made spectacles to Angels and men (as there): This had wrought his, and their Spirits to this. In the old Testament, Joshua, though he proved a man of a choice Spirit, yet when he was young in years, and but a young beginner in Grace, envy rose up in him, for his good Master, Moses sake. Eldad and Medad Prophesy, (says he) Num. 11. 29. But Moses said to him, Enviest ⟨p. 80⟩thou for my sake? and so reproved him;
2. Envy and Passionate Anger: 1. Envy, which is apt to rise, when others have no such afflictions, or losses. As that such and such an one, and of my rank, should escape with his goods, &c. when the loss falls heavy on me, saith the sad heart: This secretly regreets. Good people are greatly apt to this. The Spirit that is in [ƲS] (in us Saints) lusteth to envy. But God, in the end, gives more Grace, that is, when men are humbled (as there, tis said) and broken; which is usually, when they have been exercised with great sufferings. The different condition of the holy Apostles, and some other Christians, in those primitive times, gives demonstration of such a Patience in this case. There were no men ⟨p. 78⟩so eminent for sufferings and Patience, next the Lord Christ, as the Apostles were, who yet viewing other Christians, (as take the Corinthians, 1 Cor 4. 8, 9.) how they were full, &c. Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have Reigned as King• without us. It was a Cit• very rich, and the Christian• in it, had a fulness of outward things, when he wrote this they were full and rich: Bu• as for us, (says he) God hath 〈…〉 forth us Apostles last, as it wer• appointed to death, &c. Ye are honourable, but we are despised; 〈…〉 both hunger and thirst, and ar• naked, and are buffited, and hav• no certain dwelling place, and labour working with our hands: being reviled, we bless: being persecuted, we suffer it: being defame• we intr•at: we are made as th• filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto thi• ⟨p. 79⟩day. And yet he did not at all envy this their fulness in the least; No, he wisheth them all true prosperity, would to God ye did reign, v. 8. that is, in true and spiritual respects; he wisheth them all good rather, in all inward enjoyments, of God and Christ, together with their outward riches, &c. Now what was it, that had so much rooted up envy, &c. in him, and the other his fellow Apostles? It was his sufferings, and wants, and their being made spectacles to Angels and men (as there): This had wrought his, and their Spirits to this. In the old Testament, Joshua, though he proved a man of a choice Spirit, yet when he was young in years, and but a young beginner in Grace, envy rose up in him, for his good Master, Moses sake. Eldad and Medad Prophesie, (says he)
