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Christ the fountain of life: or, Sundry choice sermons on part of the fifth chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.Christ the fountaine of life: or, Sundry choyce sermons on part of the fift chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson, 1651
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.
A man of known and proved patience, and yet cannot bear: For what is patience, but bearing and forbearing? yet saith God, I know thy patience, and that thou canst not bear them that are evil; implying that such a soul, if it were a matter to be put upon himself, any affliction or trial put upon himself, then I know thy patience in bearing of it, but if it come to a matter of evil, not of punishment, but of sin, then I know thou cannest not bear it.
A man of known and prooved patience, and yet cannot bear: For what is patience, but bearing and forbearing? yet saith God, I know thy patience, and that thou canst not beare them that are evill; implying that such a soule, if it were a matter to be put upon himselfe, any affliction or tryall put upon himselfe, then I know thy patience in bearing of it, but if it come to a matter of evill, not of punishment, but of sinne, then I know thou cannest not bear it.
Take you any patient man, that only hath a moral virtue ⟨p. 114⟩of patience; and if he have so much patience as that he can bear with crosses, and afflictions, he can as well also bear with evils committed against God: but this is the nature of spiritual patience, it is mixed with zeal, so as that the more patient a man is, in regard of injuries done to himself, the less patient he is in respect of injuries done to God.
Take you any patient man, that onely hath a moral vertue ⟨p. 114⟩of patience; and if he have so much patience as that he can bear with crosses, and afflictions, he can as well also beare with evills committed against God: but this is the nature of spirituall patience, it is mixed with zeale, so as that the more patient a man is, in regard of injuries done to himselfe, the lesse patient he is in respect of injuries done to God.