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

and thereupon expresseth his own heart, thus▪ Would God, that all the Lords people were Prophets; and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. Now whence arose thi• blessed disposition of heart, thu• free from envy in him? In the very next chapter you meet with another instance, which give• a true account both of his not envying others, as also in bearing the envy of others against himself sharpened with the highest provocations unto ANGER, (which was the second.) It being as unkindly, as unreasonable. 'Twas the envy of his own, only Brother and Sister, for this, that God had chosen him to utter his mind by, unto his people, and reveal himself, so as never to any man, (as Gods testimony of him is in that 12. Chap.) Whereupon they had said, v. 2. Hath the Lord ⟨p. 81⟩indeed spoken only, by Moses? hath he not spoken by us? Thereupon follows the Account, or bottom disposition, of Spirit, which made him bear both this and the former, v. 3. Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. And so good man, he would himself have passed this •y, and have taken no notice at •ll of this affront: but that God ('tis there said) heard it, as noting •hat HE would not put it up so, for Moses sake. Now what was •t, had tamed, and made Moses thus meek and calm, and passive? Certainly His great Afflictions. And his Faith, having been exercised thereby had wrought Patience in him. Heb. 11. By Faith, (v. 24). he chose (v. 25.) Rather •o suffer afflictions, &c. and accordingly had lived forty years, • mean shepherd, a servile life, •n exile, a banished man, from ⟨p. 82⟩Pharaohs Court-Honours, and pleasures of it, as an underling, i hardship and durance. And i was a sudden Trial, for he fle for his life at an hours warning as well as a sore and long Trya of forty years; and these sufferings (as great as any mans in tha age) made him Meek [ver Mee], which word the Dutch Annotators render, [Patient. The Hebrew word hath affini with afflictions (saith Ainswort which had taught him Patience