A54381:1157
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Cross is nothing else but that measure of afflictions, which every faithful man, by the will of God, passeth under, in his travelling through the World to Heaven, Matth. 16. 24. Colos. 1. 24. No man is to seek affliction, or to multiply his own troubles, but when God layeth affliction upon a man, he is to bear it willingly, and patiently, Colos. 1. 11. Luke 21. 19.
The Cross is nothing else but that measure of afflictions, which every faithfull man, by the will of God, passeth under, in his travelling through the World to Heaven, Matth. 16. 24. Colos. 1. 24. No man is to seek affliction, or to multiply his own troubles, but when God layeth affliction upon a man, he is to bear it willingly, and patiently, Colos. 1. 11. Luke 21. 19.
Patience is thus strengthened.1
- 1To strengthen patience.