, I (95) atld th~ ufe of then1. · An in1patient n1an is f?efides 'himfelf,bot'h as a Man 1lnd as a Chri!tian • ... 1 • He is befides himfelf ai a Man : In1patience ' turns Reafon out of doori ; and for die AffeCtions, th~y are !ill in an uproar, ar~d will know n.o cotn- , n1and or governn1ent. . . . 2. He is bdides himfelf H .a Chrifti.an i turned quite out ofcou-~fe : ~uties,Comforts,Experience~, Hopes, all are la1d a£1de. Keep you quiet,keep the peace in your beart;and yo'l keep your heart~ ' In this·calmnefs and qu~etnefs, it bfars up tazder , troubles. Patience hath Fortitud~ tin it, it neither f,:et£, nor faints, undera~l its burtbens. Chrifiians . [mrift] bear, and patient Chrifiians (can]bear any-. .thing that con1es on the:rt?· The proper exercife of patience, is endurin~ : he endures not that fuf.fers only, but that canbear what ~e fuffers. , It bears thr~ugb it D11tjes : The · paffion o( a pa– tient perf~ti doth not hindc:r his a8:ion. He hold~ his courfe.,keeps,on his way,whatever load he hatb on\his back. He(runs)~itL1 patience, the ra·ce whicft is fet before him ; he js not difcouraged nor diver• ted from his holy courfe by any futfering it ~oft him. , And indeed, ~hrifiian P..atiencc fiands not in a bare forced quiet, in a biting in, or 'keeping·down,- our fretting xfiuations, from ,venting them.fel ves · in word or cardage,or;in a fullen filence or lfupidi- . ty; but in the maintaining fuch 'a tranquilicy of · fpirir, under all w.e. fuffer, as t!J~t we.can it ill, both· enjoy and fer ve the ~ord. He is a patient Chrifiian . that is as much. a Chrifiion in . a fiorn1 as a calm ~~· that can pray,believ.e,love,blefs God, follow God.\ and keep his way,when he fQtites,as_when hcfmiic~ Laftly, ' ' '
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