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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04368	The picture of patience. Or, a direction to perfection Most needfull and vsefull in these dangerous daies of sinne, and publike feares.	Jeffray, William.	1629 (1629)	STC 14483; ESTC S100758	29,169	97

art both the glasse for my Patience and a reward for mee Patient if then I seeke for the reward I must imitate the patterne draw me therfore after thee deare Iesus and grant me so to imitate thy patience vpon earth that thou mayst crowne my patience with thee in heauen To this agreeth that of S. Peter 1. Pet. 2 2● Christ hath suffered for vs leauing vs an example that wee should follow his stepps Wee are not then worthy of the Merit of his sufferings vnlesse we desire to imitate his blessed example who from his Cratch at Bethlem to his Crosse at Ierusalem liuely decyphered the perfection of Patience For here we may see the Sonne of God whose power is boundlesse as his Mercy is endlesse hungring thirsting who feeds vs with Manna giues vs pleasure to drinke as out of a Riuer wearied with want who had no want of wearinesse dying for sinners that sinners might not die bound with bonds that frees vs from fetters Accused by whom we are excused condemned by whom wee are absolued Crowned with Thornes that adornes vs with Roses nayled to the Crosse who redeemed vs from the losse we felt by Adam Counted with Theeues that doth match vs with Angels all which Torturing torments tormenting tortures patiently he indured to teach vs Patience Shall we not then follow his stepps He was innocent but we are nocent he deserued glory by his Obedience we shame by our Disobedience he merited life by his Death wee Death by our wicked liues Thus was he pure but we impure and yet all these things he indured for vs and shall we indure nothing for him Art thou persecuted so was he 1. Sam. 26 20. yea euen as a Partridge vpon the Mountaines Doest thou want So did he for Foxes haue holes and Birds of the Ayre nests Mat. 8.20 But the Sonne of Man had not whereon to lay his head Art thou hated so was he yea euen of those for whose saluation he was Incarnate Art thou falsly accused so was he though he were the truth it selfe Art thou iniustly condemned so was he though he be the Iudge of the world Art thou punished with death so was he yea euen with the death of the Crosse Phil. 2.8 what canst thou indure which he hath not indured Temptations from Satan Tribulations from the world yet all this which This All could inflict vpon him he indured patiently for thy sake Violls of Gods wrath from Heauen and of Mans enuie from Earth the first in the Garden at Gethsemane and the second on the Crosse at Mount Caluary Oh blessed Iesus what an Agony did est thou endure in the Garden when the burthen of our sinnes made thee fall into a bloody sweate Luk. 22.44 and that in great dropps trickling downe to the ground The torments of the body are sull of misery but those of the soule doe farre exceede these Por. 18.14 for A wounded spirit who can beare The paine of the body is but a body of paine but the sorrow of the Soule is the very soule of sorrow yet this painfull sorrow he was pleased to suffer for vs to teach vs patiently to suffer all sorrowfull paines for him Let then Patience haue her perfect worke that we c. But let vs not stay here but with weeping eyes looke to the bloody stepps he set climbing to Mount Caluarey Consider how barbarously he was apprehended vnciuilly arraigned vniustly condemned and most cruelly murthered Stay stay you bloody murtherers of the Son of God who is that you go about to appreahend is it not he that came to saue you why then doe yee endeauour to destroy him Why doe yee bind him in the bonds of sinners that came to loose you from the bonds of sinne But so it must be for so his owne good pleasure hath decreed that it should be bound then they bring him before the high Priests where by iniurious scorne and scornefull iniurie innocencie is arraigned truth accused and righteousnesse condemned this could not choose but be the darkest night that euer was wherein the light of the world euen the Sunne of Righteousnesse was so Eclipsed Hence in the morning of that mourning day was he posted to be presented before Pilate whose ambitious selfe-loue made him without further enquirie into his cause to condemne himselfe first to the Post to be whipt and then to the Crosse to be crucified Crucified and that amongst Theeues amongst Theeues vpon Mount Caluarey before a stinking dunghill but made glorious by his blessed death And now marke here the admirable Patience of our dying Life who in the midest of their derision mixed with despite doth neither raue nor rage but makes that den of theeues a house of prayer for them that before had made his house of prayer a den of theeues with Pater ignosce Father forgiue them Thus he dyed Tanquam Ouis And opened not his mouth Let then this Lambe of God teach the Lambes of Gods Church humble Patience and patiente Humility shall our great Master reade vnto vs this lecture and shall not we indeauour to take it out Oh Beloued Let vs looke to Iesus and his blessed Patience and it will teach vs patience for blessed Iesus sake when the Captaine giues the Onset what Coward will stay behind The Bees follow their King and the Beasts their leader and shall we be more senselesse then Beasts or more witlesse then Bees No let vs with vndaunted hearts follow the stepps of his patience and though troubles arise neuer so fast yet to withstand their violence by the Bulwarke of Patience suffering her to haue her perfect work that we may be perfect c. Object I but may some say Christ that was naturally the Sonne of Man was also eternally The Sonne of God both Natures being vnited by a diuine Combination in one Hypostaticall vnion by which he became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-Man in one Person by which Grace of Vnion he was able to indure more in his humane Nature then our Humane frailty can possibly indure But alas I am a Man whose weakenesse maketh me the Example of Imbecillity the spoyle of time The play of fortune The image of inconstancy The Ballance of Calamitie and therefore it may be no marueile if the Crosses of this life do sometimes driue me to impatience Well then if thy dull Eyes cannot Eagle-like behold the illustrious luster of Christ's diuine Patience Ans. yet looke lower and behold it in his Saints Men subiect to the same weakenesse that we are whose Nature was as subict to slide nay to fall as ours is or can be And since thy Bleare-eye dares not behold his sunne-exceeding brightnesse yet view it guilding the Mountaines or at least gliding vpon the waters Marke the wonderfull effect of his exemplary patience in all his holy Saints and Martyrs whose admirable Patience may serue as a Load-stone to thy iron-exceeding heart in respect of Hardnesse to draw