Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

V p .R I G H T N E ~ / doing. So you Tee that expre'ffioo, . Hehr.r2.r ~ - He!u~.t. · Seeingwehttttefitch acloudofwitn~([es, {faith the . Apollle) !tt tu runne 'the race withpatienu that-is. Jet 6eforew. The .meaning·of it -is this-; If Pa– tience haue a perfeCt: ·worke, it will 'atry· yoil through the whole race to the journeys en&; butifotherwife, aManWill runne fo farre,or fo farre; But when he meets,withfucharub, with 1 fuch a.barre by the way, there he will make a.fiand, .when •hecomes to thicke way, or to thorny way, or to ·rough way, there hee will not runne; And why? Becaufe·patience bath . .not a,perfeCt: worke. Therefore, faithhe, runne, ·with patience the .race that is fet before you. .So, a Mans heart is then entire, when every grace, ( I infrance now in this) hath his perfect. ·worke. · Ifyou ·:Object; But you fee fometimes Pa~ OujcOl. tience, even in the bell: of the~ Saims, hath not a perfeCt: worke, but ·is fometimes interrupted; You · fee it was fi> in Job; though. he -were .a .Man of ·an upright heart, ( God , ;beares that· witneffe to him, bee · was a jufr · Man, ·one that feared God) and likewife this grace was perfeCt in him, ( as that witndfe is givenhim,IameJ 5 .I r. You know the patience of I ob) yet notwithfranding this, it feemed to be interrupted, it feemed not to haue its perfect \ worke. . to this· Ianfiver-: That:it did not rife .from InAn/w~ . h h 11 m 'f h. h ...h . terrupuon t e o owne e o ts earr, or ,t e 1mper· in the Saints fecHonof the,grace but it arifeth many times graces arifeth '· 'Z fi not from un • . - 4 · rom foundneHe.

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