The Art of Divine Contentment

3. Impatience is for want of Humility. The impatient man was never humbled under the burden of sin; he that studies his sins, the numberless number of them, how ⟨p. 133⟩they are twisted together, and sadly accented, is patient, and saith, I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him^*. The greater noise drowns the lesser; when the sea roars the rivers are still, he that lets his thoughts expatiate about sin, is both silent and amazed, he wonders it is no worse with him. How great then is this sin of impatience? and how excellent is Contentation which is a Supersedeas or counterpoison against this sin. The contented Christian believing that God doth all in love, is patient, and hath not one word to say, unless to justify God^*. That is the first sin which Contentation prevents.

3. Impatience is for want of Humility. The impatient man was never humbled under the burden of sinne; he that studies his sinnes, the numberlesse number of them, how ⟨p. 133⟩they are twisted together, and sadly accented, is patient, and saith, I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him^*. The greater noise drowns the lesser; when the sea roares the rivers are still, he that lets his thoughts expatiate about sinne, is both silent and amaz'd, he wonders it is no worse with him. How great then is this sinne of impatience? and how excellent is Contentation which is a Supersedeas or counterpoison against this sinne. The contented Christian beleeving that God doth all in love, is patient, and hath not one word to say, unlesse to justifie God^*. That is the first sin which Contentation prevents.

1. *Mica. 7. 9.
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