comfortable walking with God. Tot with him, and faid, The Lordfent me before), lob beyond the Caldeans lawleffeout -rages, and faid, The Lord bath ta- ken away David beyondShemeis dogged rancour, and faid, The Lordbathhidden him : Iefiu Chrisi Himfelfe, blefled for ever, looked beyond the Pharifies, Priefls, Iewes, Iudas and the fouldiers, to leis Fathers Cup, Iob. t 8. it. This Cup w/,ich .may Father hobgivenmee, (ball Inot drinke ? when bee com- manded Peter to fheath his (word. This Chriflian counce.11 paffeth that which was given to Auguflus : when theobjedls andoccatons of choller are in thine eie, or eare; when thou art any waies wronged, belyed, ray led upon, fpurned at, or trampledupon by the feete ofhonoured infolency , or dung- hill malice, before thou inwardly fret, or breake out intoany impatient behaviour, fay fidl ferioufly and feelingly in thine ovine !team, This isfromGod, for my good: or with old Eli ; It is the Lord, let him doe whatfeemethhimgood, t Sam. 3. I 8. And let it for ever fnaflle,nay, fweetly compofethe haflineffe and fowreneffe of thy corrupt nature in cafe ofcholer. 2. Let the wonderful) patience of that mightie Lord of Heaven and earth, who is ablewith one word to calf all the creatures inthe World into Hell , nay even with the breath ofhis mouth, to turne Hell, and Heaven, and Earth, and all things,into nothing: I fay,let his patience againif the infinite intolerable, and endlefle provocations of his owne moll ob- liged creatures, who like fo many defperate traitours, live and lie continually in open rebellion againfi fo great a Ma- jellie, be a a Paterne andPrecedent unto thee a filly Worme, Si Dominus no duff andafhes, earth, or any thing that is naught; of pro- bis,& Pater Des; portionable forbearance (if there could bee any proportion eft, i- caemur pa- betweene infinite and finite) toward thy fellow creatures. pariter tientiam D &Parris omin : i Howmany blacke and blafphemous mouthes are unceffantl;y quia & fervos o_ porter rife obfe- quemes, & filios non decet die degeneres Qualis verb in Deo &quanta patientia, quod in contumeliam füæ Majel}atis & honoris infliruta ab hominibus profana templa, & terrena fii;menta, & facra facrilega parientifiïmé fulhnens, roper bonos et malosæqualiter'facit diem nafci et lumen lotis oboriri, &c. Et turn crebris, imó coutinuis exacerbatur offenfis Deus indignationem foam temperas, et præflitutum femel retribu_ bons diem patienter expedar. Cumque habeas in potellate vindif am, marult diu tenerepatienriam; faílinens, fcilicet elementer, et differens, ut fi fieri poteft, multummalitiaprotrakaaliquando mutetur, cthomo in errorxm eu fcclerum contagion volutatus, vel feròad Dominum convertatur, cyrimde boss ¿stienti e. . H 3 open
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