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A95864	A sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons; at their late solemne fast, December, 28. Wherein is described 1. The church her patience: 2. Her hope. In the exercise of both which graces, she is enabled to waite upon God in the way of his judgements: in which divers cases are propounded and resolved. That the soul sick of love, doth with more difficulty endure the absence of Christ, then the present evils of this world. By Thomas Valentine, Rector of Chalfont in Buckinghamshire. Published by order of that House.	Valentine, Thomas, 1585 or 6-1665?	1643 (1643)	Wing V26; Thomason E86_32; ESTC R12382	44,658	51

Cap. 27.46 I am weari● of my life because of them Others in our dayes say these are pitifull times trading is decayed the treasure of the Kingdom is exhausted all things are out of frame In these and the like expressions where corruption appears I am now to speak to it by way of reproof The causes of Impatience are 1. The crosse lies in somewhat that is too dear unto us Foure causes of impatience and self-love may be the cause of this impatience Rachel mourns and will not be comforted for her children Jacob is impatient of Benjamins going out of his sight and the reason is he loved him more then was meet An when once we are lost in our affections to any thing the crosse proves heavie and we pull it upon our selves It is just with God to punish us in that thing we idolize And if we cannot moderate our affections we pull a double evill upon our selves 1. To be bereaved of that which is dear unto us 2. We shall not be able to bear the losse of it If we joy too much in any thing when we loose it we shall mourn too much and then in stead of pitie from friends we should have a reproof Impatience discovers men for you shall find that in some things they can bear it better then in others and if they be most tachie and peevish when crossed in matter of profit or pleasure or name and reputation a Heathen concluded that then they are covetous or ambitious or luxurious An impatient man is guiltie of a double fault one past in his irregular affections an other present in his ill carriage to God or man in the losse of that which is taken from him 2. Anoth●r cause of Impatience is ignorance of God when we see God in a crosse we submit but if not we are perverse We see a great deal of difference in David towards Shimei and Nabal both of them give him ill language and Shimei was worse then the other yet he is more patient towards him then Nabal and the reason is he saw God more in his reproachfull termes then the other God hath bidden him curse saith he and therefore he will bear it If a man meet the King and know him not he will not give him due reverence And if we acknowledge not God in our crosses no wonder if we be impatient It is in this case as with the owners of the Asses colt if you say the Lord hath need of him they will let him go saith our Saviour so when we part with our estates if the Lord have need of them let them go Let us offer as Araunah did our barnes and all that is on the barn-floore our oxen or any thing we have but unlesse we know it is the Lord that requires them we shall hardly submit and scarce then unlesse nature be subdued by a higher and more powerfull principle 3. A third cause of impatience is the distemper of the constitution of the bodie for it comes from passion and that is from the passive principle in man where choller abounds there the soul works distemperedly for all actions taste and have a ta●g of the humour that is predominant and though passions and passionate expressions are to be ascribed to the mind yet all actions elicited and acted by the bodie partake of the naturall temper It is inbred and setled and hardly overcome and so it is both a sin and a great affliction to them that are sensible of it Passions are the feet of the soul they are in the sensitive appetite and when they grow inordinate they are the diseases of the mind the depravers of reason the disturbers of the understanding whereby wise men speak nothing do nothing like themselves It is a weaknesse to have passions a greater weaknesse to be conquered by them Therefore when the people gave too much to the Apostles to take down that opinion Act. 14.15 they alledge they were men subiect to like passions as themselves intimating that it is a weaknesse and belowe a wise man to have passions in him And for conclusion consider that when we are commanded Luk. 21.19 to possesse our souls in patience it appears that by passion and impatience we are dispossessed of our souls of our understanding of our joy and comfort and peace for that time that passion bears sway A patient man doth quietly injoy himself his comforts his friends but if passion possesse thy impatient soul it will play the tyrant and turn thee out of all Mark 5.2 3. thou art like him that was possessed by an evill spirit and we find t●at he did tear himself so impatient persons wound and cut and vex themselves and it is said that none could bind him ver 3.4 rage will break out and will not be restrained I would kill a man in mine anger saith Lamech Gen. 42.28 I will go mourning to my grave if ought but good befall Benjamin by the way saith Jacob. When men give way and let the rains go their passions runne like wilde horses in which case men are burthensome to themselves and others he that was possessed of the evill spirit was among the tombes but these are among the living and molest and grieve most those that are nearest to them 4. A fourth cause of Impatience is the crosse comes suddenly and takes us unawares We break out before we consider of it passion surprizeth a man as a thief that robs him before he could make any resistance It were good we did think beforehand of the evils of the day of the crosse occurrents that may fall out in our callings and families and occasions Collect thy spirits and consider there may be and it is like there will be some untowardnesse in servants some undutifulnesse in children some unkindnesse in husband wife or friends arme thy self against all and be prepared Think with thy self God could have matched all good husbands and good wives together and could have given to all good parents good children and faithfull servants to the masters that fear him he could have put all sweet dispositions to have laid together and injoyed a happie neighbourhood but divine providence hath disposed otherwise to try our patience Having gone through the first part of the dutie of waiting upon God I now come to the second The Church her hope which is a cheerfull expectation of good If we were never so patient in bearing evill and yet did not keep up our desires and affections we failed in our waiting for there ought to be a certain and a cheerfull expectation of such future good things as God hath promised 1. It must be a future good we hope for not present which we do enjoy alreadie and it must be promised else we build without a foundation Presumption roves abroad at large but hope looks for a promise Objectum spei 1 Proximum 2 Principale There is a double object for our hope one is principall and