The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

Patience, a prime Glory of the Divine Majesty continues a mans possession of his own Soul, his Liberty, his Dominion of himself. He is (if he can suffer nothing) a Slave to his vilest and most sordid passions at home; his own base fear, and brutish anger, and effeminate grief, and to any mans lusts, and humours besides, that he apprehends▪ can do him hurt. It keeps a mans Soul in a peaceful calm, delivers him from (that most unnatural) self-torment, defeats the impotent malice of his most implacable enemy, who fain would vex him but cannot.

Patience, a prime Glory of the Divine Majestie continues a mans possession of his own Soul, his Liberty, his Dominion of himself. He is (if he can suffer nothing) a Slave to his vilest and most sordid passions at home; his own base fear, and bruitish anger, and effeminate grief, and to any mans lusts, and humours besides, that he apprehends▪ can do him hurt. It keeps a mans Soul in a peaceful calm, delivers him from (that most unnatural) self-torment, defeats the impotent malice of his most implacable enemy, who fain would vex him but cannot.

Justice, the Great Attribute of the Judge of all the Earth, as such; so far as the impression of it takes place among men▪ preserves the Common Peace of […] World, and the Private Peace of each […] in his own bosom, so that the former ⟨p. 330⟩be not disturbed by doing of mutual injuries, nor the latter by the conscience of having done them.

Justice, the Great Attribute of the Judge of all the Earth, as such; so farre as the imppression of it takes place among men▪ preserves the Common Peace of 〈…〉 World, and the Private Peace of each in his own bosome, so that the former