in the Soul of M an. 21 that je11t him. ~his ,was the exercife of his childhood, an~ th~ confiant His diligence employn1ent of h1s nper age. in doingHe fpared no travail or pains God's will. while he \vas about his Father's bu!inefs, · but took fuch infinite content and fatif– fattion in the performance of it, that when, being faint and weary with his .journey, he rdl:ed hitnfelf on Jacob' s well, and intreated water of the Samaritan wo– Jnan, the. fuccefs of his conference with her, and the acceffion that was n1ade to the kingdotn of God, filled his n1ind with fuch delight, as feen1ed to have redounded to his very body, refreihing his fpirits, and n1aking hin1 forget the thirfl: whereof he complained before, and refufe the meat \vhich he had fcnt his difciples to buy. Nor was he lefs patient . . d fi b ·m . r_ .er • h H1s pattence an U 1111 rVe 111 lUuertHg t .e in bearing it. will of God, than diligent in doing of it. He endured the iharpeft af– fliCtions and extremefl: n1iferies that ever 1 · \vere infliCted on any mortal, without a repining t~1ought, or difcontented word. For though he was far tron1 a fl:upid in– fenfibili ty, or a phantafl:ick or fioical ·ob– fiina\;y, and had as quick a fenfe of pain as other men, and the deepefi apprehen– fion of what he was to fuffer in his foul, (as
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