OF MANS ~ wanting nothing. Where you fee, that this is put downe, as ~n effect that arifeth from per– fedneffe and integritie of heart, when we fuf- · fer thegraces ofGod, (as patience inparticular ) tohauetheir perfect worke. ·Now patience is faid to haue itsperfect worke, when ·itendure.:s all.J<:indes of tryalis, for that is .the fcope ofthe · Apofile,;Rejoyce (faith the Apofl:le) when you foil int6 trialsofdivers forts :That is, tryals that concerne'youinwule,inbody,in name, and in· Pa . - • llate, tryalsofevery fort, and every kinde : lfi . t•encens p . b c ..a. d. '11 b r. n 'f . perfed:werke attence ·e perre'-'L; (an It WI e perie~.-t:,l It whar, 1 be iri aheart th'at ·is'· perfect, and entire, it will haue a perfect worke ) it wiU make us il:ay no wh'ere : So that patience liath then its perfect worke, when it will fuffer any thing, o·ee i t ,~ death, be it difgrace, be it imprifonment, ·or povertie, beit loffe offriends, be it whatit will be, '+ffiittions of·any kinde: Name all forts ofi Anunr~und tt:ouble thatyou can devife, if Patience haue a ~anfurmkes perfect·worke it will beareallofthem•. When 1nfometr7al•. • ' . the heart 1s . found, then this Grace or any other hath a perfect.worke: . Therefore you fee, men whofe hearts are not found, . Nature will makea'ftand fomewhere : A·man perhaps willheare many things for Religion, but if it come to death; there·he ilirinkes: ·A man will -., . endure much, but ifit come to <lifgrace,to dif· credit, to loffe oftepuiation, there his patience bath-not a perfect worke: And therefore he gives -· over. As Patience its perfect: · wor~e is feene in fuffering, fo likewife it is feen~ m dmng, .
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