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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

and the winds blow the mountain stands firm for all this But if there be an earthquake that will shake it Enemies may traduce thee and oppresse thee and calamities like a storm may fall upon thy head and these may be born but if thy spirit be impatient and unquiet that 's an earthquake in thy soul and will do thee more hurt then the malice of thy worst adversarie There is no comfortable living in this world without patience for the least trouble puts us out of frame but the grace of patience doth recover us and if it can prevail keeps the mind quiet Aquinas makes it the root of all graces but his explication must be taken in Non causando or conservando sed removendo prohibens It is the let removing cause For trouble comes and would hinder us in our love and joy and hope and confidence in God patience bears all and quiets the soul and in so doing removes the evill of the trouble that it becomes no impediment to our graces It was a prettie conceit of the Poet Aqui. 1● secundae q. 56. art 2. that made everie vertue without patience to be as a widow for as she wants half of her strength and wisdom and counsell so thy faith and love and hope are but weak and patience guards them Therefore in Hebr. 6.12 Faith and patience are coupled together and Rom. 15. Hope and patience and comfort are united We are said to run the race that is set before us with patience Heb. 12.1 It seems a kind of contradiction to run with patience for running is active and patience is passive and therefore one is distinct from the other if not opposite but he that runs and wants patience will never get to the end of the race For in the race of Gods Commandments men have soule play one comes and rails on him for his zeal for running so fast when he thinks himself too slow another gives him a blowe and strikes him down and up he gets and runs again And whereas everie man will make roome and give way to him that is in a race he that runs to heavenward many will stand in his way and stop him in all which he had need of patience And we may put it among the cardinall graces which are so called à Cardine for as Janua sine cardine as a doore without hinges cannot be beneficiall to shut out the cold or any thing else that will offend him so is a man without patience every thing will offend him what is a wise man a zealous man without patience he will beare nothing suffer nothing and then he will do no great good I have often marvelled why so little is written on this subject we are beholding to Augustine and Tertullian for two short Tractates of patience others both ancient and modern speak of it for the most part as other theames that come in their way we have need to preach it and practise it there is a daily use of it 2 Patience is a silent temper of spirit in opposition to impatience which is either secretly murmuring and repining or else openly clamorous sometimes causing wrangling disputes not onely with men but God himself as we see in Jonah cap. 4.1.4 sometimes unjust complaints in a higher degree as we see in the Israelites who did chide with Moses when they wanted water or any thing else Numb 20.3.4 Would God we had died when our brethren died They died in their sin for they lusted and while the meat was between their teeth the wrath of God was kindled against them and he smote the people with a great plague Num. 11.33 a fearfull death was inflicted and yet they are so farre from being restrained thereby that they break out again into intemperate language that heaven and earth rings again and they fill the eares of God and man with their clamours when they were in Egypt they groaned when they were come out they wished themselves there again when they want necessaries they murmure and cannot wait They had the miraculous manifestation of Gods power and goodnesse in the daily supply of their wants and yet they will not trust him but in the perversenesse of their impatient spirit wish that either they had stayed in Egypt or died with their brethren I would the like did not appear in our Land at this day many are readie to say would God we had not looked after a Reformation that we had never thought of any alteration then we had not known these troubles and dangers and this great expence of money It may be these will do as they did with Moses and Aaron Exod. 5.21.23 lay the blame on them whom God used as instruments of their good and say You have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants And if you will know the cause of these distempers one among the rest is they like not that way nor those Ordinances which others pray for and wait for It is with them as with the people that were to come out of Babylon Though libertie to return was granted by Cyrus yet many stayed behind of whom there is mention made in 1. Chron. 4.23 these were potters and those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges there they dwelt with the king for his work They dwelt with the King of Babylon their employment was meane they made pots they were potters their habitation was answerable they dwelt under hedges they were poore spirited men the base brood of their degenerated forefathers for they made brick in Egypt and would have been contented with that bondage and drudgerie so these would rather make pots in Babylon and dwell under hedges then go after their freedome in Sion They are branded in the words before for though the latter end of verse 22. be translated these are ancient things yet Junius renders it these are res obsoletae things worn out and forgotten and indeed they deserve to be forgotten But let us remember them as these worthie Jews did whose spirit God had touched to go on to build the Temple at Jerusalem they pray for them in Psal 126.4 Turn our captivitie as the streams in the South It was penned upon this Occasion and that prayer on purpose made in behalfe of these Jews that stayed behind in Babylon They take them to be their captives being but obliged unto them by a nationall bond So let us pray for those of our Nation that are loath to come out of Babylon But let us not wonder at the stirs and divisions in our Land the same causes have produced the like effects in former ages nor let the backwardnesse of those that keep off discourage you the worthie Instruments of God from going on to build the Temple and reform the Kingdom but let your forwardnesse bring them on by the example of those noble Jews alreadie mentioned If the grace of patience did prevail and we were willing to wait upon God these distempers would