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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41527	Patience and its perfect work under sudden & sore tryals	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1666 (1666)	Wing G1251; ESTC R40909	51,072	174

GLORIOVS Power is requisite to perfect this Grace which argues this to be so difficult an exercise above any other and that our Natures are infinitly remote from it of our selves which we not minding nor considering have not perhaps with answerable vehemency implored the aid of so Great a Power And secondly This gives us a clear reason why prayer of all other means should be directed by the Apostle and extraordinarily set upon by us as the most effectual yea as an only means to obtain this For seeing that Power lyes out of our selves in GOD which must effect this in us then surely nothing can be judged so prevailing as Faith and Prayer which are the Graces in and by which the Soul going out of it self in a sence of its utter insufficiency supplicates the Grace in Gods heart to exert this power of his good pleasure and so do draw it forth and bring it down into the Heart And then thirdly This gives us the highest encouragement that we may obtain this perfect work of it however remote from it the present temper of our Spirits may seem to be to us Seeing that no less then such a glorious power is requisite to effect it in the strongest Christians And a power so glorious is able to work it in the weakest Let us Pray therefore with all vehemency for our selves as the Apostle did for those Colossians that this glorious power may come upon us and strengthen our inward man as 't is elfwhere with all might which might in us is the effect of that power in God as the cause For as this Patience is to be an All Patience or else it hath not its perfect work so this MIGHT it must be an all might you must be strengthened with unto such A Patience of you will not be perfect at it That MIGHT you had in such or such a Triall will not serve to strengthen you against the next triall that shall come But you must still have a new speciall might for every new triall Your dependance therefore is great upon God for this perfect work of Patience And yet your encouragements are great For as it must be that if God will please to strengthen us under any great unusual Tentations that he should put forth no less then this Glorious power So we have heard how in our Apostle he hath promised he will give it and give it freely and liberally to them that make it their main constant earnest business to ask it And therefore his Grace if applyed to is engaged to put this POWER forth It cannot but be a great support to a weak heart that finds it self so remote and distant from such a work of Patience and weak also in comparison of finding such an inward might that it should have Ground and Cause to think and to believe that Gods glorious power is engaged most sreely to be abundantly and readily put forth if continued to be sought unto Why this says the weak heart will do it namely this glorious power And I have found by some Tryals already that the strong God and a weak heart will be too hard for any thing yea for the whole World And therefore when you think your present trials that are come upon you far greater then you can bear think withall of the glorious power of God that is at hand to help you 'T is a great word That his GLORIOVS POWER A greater attribute could not have been named or found out for our comfort And is a word of vertue force and power to hearten to or against anything whatever 'T is true thy present trial may be and is above that in ward strength which serves and hath served hitherto to act thy graces in thy ordinary walkings with God holily and sincerely A child may by its ordinary strength be able to walk up and down a room by stooles suppose supporting it without any other extraordinary help But if it be to goe up a pair of Staires the strength that enabled it to these lesser performances will not be sufficient thereunto He must be carryed and held up in the arms of one who is strong and mighty And so it is here That other part of our Christian obedience the active ●ife of a Christian prayed for by the Apostle in that place to the ●olossians also whereby he walks ●ruitfully c. as in the seventh ●erse of that chapter requires indeed Gods power for by it it is we are kept unto Salvation all-a-●ong But when it comes to Pati●nce and Long-suffering and ALL PATIENCE and that such ● trial comes as will try all Pati●nce in you then it is He makes ●ention of that glorious Power ●nd not afore For it must be no ●ess that must go to that then Gods GLORIOVS POWER And ●he promise therefore is in such case that the SPIRIT OF GLO●Y shall rest upon us and not ●he Spirit of Grace only as I Pet. 4. 14. Relieve and comfort therefore your selves with these things and specially with this That as your trials abound so this glorious power of God will abound also towards you for your support AMEN FINIS Some Slips and Omissions PAge 4. Line 11. For strongest Read strangest Page 18. Line 15. After to Patience Read Let Patience have but its perfect work and that alone will make you eminently perfect And his scope c. Page 24. line 25. For And they Read And now they Page 58. line 16. After In the world Read Which he had reckoned up Page 90. line 21. After Discouragement Read For this cause we faint not Page 99. line 9. For Sp●ritual Read In Glory Page 106. line 1. For But yet for all my Read But for all he knew my Page 109. line ult Read His meaning further A. Page 111. line 18 After So long Read The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken Blessed c. Page 119. line 12. After Sums up Read The Frame of his Spirit Page 131. line 20. Read Vnto Patience LONG-SVFFERING is added Page 148 Margin For Toibi sibi tentum Read Tr●bui sibi sensum Job 7. 18. Psal 37. 13. Ps 44. 22. Jer. 29. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same word here and there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est id per quod sit explaratio Grotius in Verba and so it differs from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which notes the issue the experiment or fruit upon tryal see the same Grotius on Rom 5. 4. even as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● Cor. 8. 7. Psal 89. 15 Pf. 40. 8. Heb. 10. Rev. 1. 9. Patientia it a Dei rebus proposita est ut nullum prae●eptum obire quis possit à Patientia extraneus Tertul. De Patientia Mat. 5. 47. Eclesiast 9. 10. Mat. 5. 12. The Description of Patience Admonet Victores omnium Tentationum fore qui Deum amant Nec aliâ de ●●usâ nos animo defici cum tentamur nisi quia prevalet MVNDI AMOR. Calvin in Verba Omnes virtutes certant sola Patientia vincit coronatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 55. 12. Heb. 5. 〈…〉 habet vim quietativam Psal 51. * See Piscator and the Dutch Annotat And the Ground why it may be so judged is the conformity which these pass●ges in the Psalm verse 8. Make me not the REPROACH of the foolish and this specially v. 9. I opened not my mouth because THOV DIDST IT doe hold with that story 2 Sam. 16. 10 11. When Shimei did curse him upon occasion of which David simularly spake thus The Lord hath said to him curse David Who shall then say wherefore hast thou done so Let him alone THE LORD HATH BIDDEN HIM Which is just as here THE LORD HATH DONE IT 'T is such a phrase as when Christ says I know you not Heb. 12. Sapientiae nomen ad circumstantiam praesentis Loci restringo Calvin in Verb. Siquis vestrum non potest intelligere V●ilitatem Tentationum postulet a Deo toibui sibi tentum Beda in Locum Cum dicat omnibus intelligit qui Petunr Calvin in Virba NECEXPROB●T Hoc additum est Ne quis deum sepi us adire metuat ●ui ex Hominibus maximè sunt Liberales rametsi identidem quispiam juvari se postuler priora beneficia commemorant at que ita excusant IN POSTERUM Calvin in verba Vel certe ideo addit nequis deum sepius adire vereatur Calvins very words nonne enim dicit jam toties dedi quid adhuc me obtundis Ut solent homines etiam qui maximè sunt liberales Calvins very words again Sed Deus ut est Fons inex●austus ita ad dandum modo pet●ssicut oportet paratissimus imo i●●e ultro nos invitans ad semper petendum c. Aestius in verba 1 Head 2 Head 3 Head Ephes 4. 17.