A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

1. Patience in waiting God's Leisure. Patience is a Grace very needful in our Pilgrimage where we are exercised with so many Difficulties; Heb. 10.36. For ye have need of Patience, that after the have done the Will of God, ye might receive the Promise: you do not only need Holiness, but Patience. It is long before we can bring our Hearts to do the Will of God; but after that is done, you have need of Patience, that you may wait God's Leisure for your Reward: For the Reward is not given, till there be time for Labour and Exercise; and Troubles coming on, make time seem very long. Whatever Grace we may spare, we cannot spare Patience, if we would persist in well-doing, for we are to wait for the blessed Hope. The good Ground bringeth forth Fruit with Patience, Luke 8.15. Look as the Ground endures the Plough, the Harrow, the Cold, the Frost, that in due time the Seed may spring up; so we have need of Patience, that we may wait upon God for the blessed Hope. And as Patience is very needful in the present Life, so it is inseparable from Hope, 1 Thess. 1.3. it is called the Patience of Hope. To every Grace he gives a proper Action; there is the Work of Faith, the Labour of Love, and the Patience of Hope. Faith propounds Work, Love makes us to labour and sweat at it, and Hope makes us wait with Patience for our Reward and Recompense. Rom. 8.25. But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with Patience wait for it: What we hope for, we wait with Patience for: between Hope and Having there is an intervening time to exercise Patience. There is want of the thing desired, and Delays are troublesome. Now to keep looking, is a Work of Patience.

1. Patience in waiting God's Leisure. Patience is a Grace very needful in our Pilgrimage where we are exercised with so many Difficulties; Heb. 10.36. For ye have need of Patience, that after ye have done the Will of God, ye might receive the Promise: you do not only need Holiness, but Patience. It is long before we can bring our Hearts to do the Will of God; but after that is done, you have need of Patience, that you may wait God's Leisure for your Reward: For the Reward is not given, till there be time for Labour and Exercise; and Troubles coming on, make time seem very long. Whatever Grace we may spare, we cannot spare Patience, if we would persist in well-doing, for we are to wait for the blessed Hope. The good Ground bringeth forth Fruit with Patience,