THE PE REE CTION OF PATIENCE' O R, THE COMPLEATE CHEZISTIAN. SERMON IV. JAME'S I.4.. But let Patience have her perfet verb, that you may be perfeli and intere, wanting nothing. N the fccond Verfe of this Chapter, the Apofile perfwad- eth the difhrefh Servants of God co hear their MI:li :lions Coherence. chearfully , My Erethren ( Caith he ) count it all jay, when you fall into divers Tentations : This Exhorta- tion he pt effect) in the third Verle, by (hewing the gra- cious tffcós of Tentations, when God far.&ilieth them ; Knowing this, that the tryal of your Faith worketh Pa ticnce. Yra, but if this be all the fruit of our Afflictions and Tentations, that we (hall be made patient, what great matter is that ? What great advantage cometh by Patience ? I: is but a dull grace, it is meetly paffive? He telleth them, that it is fuch a grace, as is neccilary to he beeing, and perfe&ion of a Chriiian, in the Words that I have now read to you, Let Pacientehave her perfetl Work, that you may be perfeíl, and entire, wanting nothing. I (hall fpeak fomething for the Explication of the Terms and Phraies tiled here,and then come to elea fuchPoints as(hall offer themfelves to us from them. Phfh,
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