Coin. r. Of Patience anditscÔntritries. Chap.zq,: raj ïuff_rs good men to be aftlitted by wicked, becaufe it is not fit he fhould ufe good men as Scourges for the good;for there mutt be a fan to make a feperationof the Corn and Chaff, which is the Crofs. There is a red Sea to pafs, if thou be a true Ifraelite, thou fhalt get through, if an /Egyptian no paffage forthee, thou (halt bedrowned in the midst of it it. vitulitrit¡trancesquotidieliganturad (tabulam, vitalnialkandi1Mo. ridie inpafcuic libere relingnntur, the Oxen that are for ufe, arekept tyed up, when thofe that are fatted for the fhambles, are let bofe into the pafture to feed at pleafure. 4. The laft is, for the Devils confufion, to confound him when he Pays, Doth }ób job,i' ferve God for nought. God fends tryals to flop the Devils mouth, who Flanders all for mercenaries, therefore oft-times he fends no reward vifible at all, and fometimes gives malummercedern, an ill reward inappearance, that it may appear that we ferve him rratuito freely. Now for themanner of fuffering There were in the Primitive Church a fort of heretiques calledCircumcilliones, who ( hearing Patience fomuch commended ) con- ceived of it, as the Stoicks, to be an a /asd. a want of paffions, and therefore whip. ped themfelves, and acquainted themfelves fo much with hardfhip, that they could bear any thing. But we are to underftand, that as Chriftian religion is far from Epicurifine, fo it allows not the doctrine of the Stoicks Saint Paul dif- puted againft both Epicures and Stoicks. Chriftian Patience is no Stoical 4.44 / for gob, David, Chrift, they were Patient, yet had fotte notable figns of paffons, that they felt what they fuffered. Nor is Patience a Monthclite, to have a will only to be punifhed. Our Saviour had a will to be rid of the Cup, as well as a fubmiffi. 1.66 2.4 on to Gods will. It was a fuffering according to thewill of God, as the Apoftle ip:c.q,ry. fpeaks, to which he conformed himfelf. Saint Auguftine fheweth the difference`e7,dzpat'°°" between the Heathens, and Hereticks Patience, and that which is true Patience. The fir(t was not in a good caufe, or for a right end, but poffibly they ufed themfel: ves to fuffer, and felt it not : but in true Patience, a man feels the Crofs, and would be rid of it, yet fubmits to the good pleafure of God. And therefore he faith, it was flupor morbi ( being accuftomed to ill ) patina pan:, robarfanitatis, A ftupef - ingdifeale, rather than the ftrength of health, and admirandaduritia, lux magnaeftfed neganda parientia, vie nulla eft, their hardnefs was to beadmired, forit was great, but their patience to be denied, for theyhad none. That which is forbidden the Apoftle comprizeth in one verte; It. A fmall regard, or defpifing the chaftifement of the Lord. z. and afainting under his corre pion tA,Jorio Hebrz.;z and t.rvre the twoextreams of true Patience. a. Saint Cbryfoltom noteth upon E.rodm9, 28. that in the wicked there is but mo_ momcntnea cura, not no regard at all, but a momentary regard of Gods afffie1ions: as it was in Pharoab concerning the plagues of 'gyps; and it was no other in }erobo. r King .t;,6. am, there was in him a humilition for the prefent, till his hand was reftoredon- ly. That effet`t which judgement works upon the wicked is only pannicus timor, a panick fe for theprefent, till the danger be over, and therefore fuch Patience is called PanicaPudenda, a panick Patience : like to that in Bears and Wolves at the found of the Drum, they are afraid while that is beaten and no longer. Oras they which not being tiled to the Sea are lick, whilethe (hip is tofíed, but affoon -.s they let footing on the land are well again. And by this men came tothat which the Ancients call Stupor morbi, non rober fanitatia, a nummnefs and hardnefs of Soul, not proceeding from ftrength of Health: and they call it anima mesame a palfyof the Soul. It is one thing to thruft a Needle into quick, and another into dead defh. And this ftupor or numnefs of the Soul is of two forts. Contraîttia er im- miffua. t. The wifeman fpeaking of aperfon given to excels of meat and drink, faith,TheyProv.s3.3 . have ftriken me (fhalt thou fay) and I was not lick, they have beaten me, and I felt it not. He thews that forne by cultome in fin, contra& a fenfelefs in fin. Their life is like to them that fleep in the top matt, whole fleep is broken and yet con- tinues, and fo they come to a kinde of drunkcnncfs: 1Ebriifint, tronvino, as the Prophet [peaks, theyare drunk, but trot with_Wine; and fo it falls out in other vices, Pfa.çs.st* when a man is bewitcht with a fin, bets finittcn but feeleth trot, becaufe he is drunk with it: 2. The
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