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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

were full c. Now ye are full now ye are rich ye have Reigned as King● without us It was a Cit● very rich and the Christian● in it had a fulness of outward things when he wrote this they were full and rich Bu● as for us says he God hath 〈◊〉 forth us Apostles last as it wer● appointed to death c. Ye are honourable but we are despised 〈◊〉 both hunger and thirst and ar● naked and are buffited and hav● no certain dwelling place and labour working with our hands being reviled we bless being persecuted we suffer it being defame● we intr●at we are made as th● filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things unto thi● day And yet he did not at all envy this their fulness in the least No he wisheth them all true prosperity would to God ye did reign v. 8. that is in true and spiritual respects he wisheth them all good rather in all inward enjoyments of God and Christ together with their outward riches c. Now what was it that had so much rooted up envy c. in him and the other his fellow Apostles It was his sufferings and wants and their being made spectacles to Angels and men as there This had wrought his and their Spirits to this In the old Testament Joshua though he proved a man of a choice Spirit yet when he was young in years and but a young beginner in Grace envy rose up in him for his good Master Moses sake Eldad and Medad Prophesie says he Num. 11. 29. But Moses said to him Enviest thou for my sake and so reproved him and thereupon expresseth his own heart thus Would God that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Now whence arose thi● blessed disposition of heart thu● free from envy in him In the very next chapter you meet with another instance which give● a true account both of his not envying others as also in bearing the envy of others against himself sharpned with the highes● provocations unto ANGER which was the second It being as unkindly as unreasonable 'T was the envy of his own only Brother and Sister for this that God had chosen him to utter his mind by unto his people and reveal himself so as never to any man as Gods testimony of him is in that 12. Chap. Whereupon they had said v. 2. Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses hath he not spoken by us Thereupon follows the Account or bottom disposition of Spirit which made him bear both this and the former v. 3. Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth And so good man he would himself have passed this ●y and have taken no notice at ●ll of this affront but that God 't is there said heard it as noting ●hat HE would not put it up so for Moses sake Now what was ●t had tamed and made Moses●hus ●hus meek and calm and passive Certainly His great Afflictions And his Faith having been exercised thereby had wrought Pati●nce in him Heb. 11. By Faith v. 24 he chose v. 25. Rather ●o suffer afflictions c. and accordingly had lived forty years ● mean shepheard a servile life ●n exile a banished man from Pharaohs Court-Honors and pleasures of it as an underling i● hardship and durance And i● was a sudden Tryal for he fle● for his life at an hours warning as well as a sore and long Trya● of forty years and these sufferings as great as any mans in tha● age made him Meek ver● Mee● which word the Dutc● Annotators render Patient The Hebrew word hath affini●● with afflictions saith Ainswort● which had taught him Patienc● as sufferings did Christ who●● type he was These had subdue● anger and envy in him unto th●● so high a degree And Patienc● had its perfect work For otherwise we find he could be angr● at times Exod. 11. 8. and 26. 20 and 31. 19. Lev. 10. 16. Nu● 16. 11. and 31. 14. and chap● 20. 10 11. as Ainsworth hath collected them Jesus Christ hath taught us lesson against this envy Mat. 20. 15. Shall I not doe what I will with mine own Are not all things mine And wilt thou envy that I have taken them from thee and not done so from another Shall thine eye be evil because I am good Shall a man be sick that another is in health 3. Inordinate Fears When too much trouble comes upon us we use to fear too much at the present And are apt to project a thousand things for the future as that poverty and beggary will follow many such fears lay hold upon us because we see Gods anger hath begun and we know not the worst nor when or where●twill ●twill end But saith Christ Rev. 2. 10. Fear none of those things that thou shalt suffer Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of life Faith and faithfulness unto God or constancy in enduring unto death he here opposeth to Fear and Faith works Patience and Patience eats out fear Fortitude and courage differs from Patience in this that a stout courage in a man of a great Spirit will indeed overcome FEAR i● so be he sees any hope of evading and so will rouse a mans Spirit up to resistance and defence But Patience though it sees no hope as to this life yea nothing but present death afore it it will yet strengthen the heart to bear it and make a man Faithful unt● death and constant without prevailing fears even unto death 4. Murmuring against God● Patience workes out that As i● Job The Devil projected hi● blaspheming He will blasphem● thee to thy face He made sure account of it and would needs turn Prophet and prophesie what Job would doe and that before God But the devil was befool'd and proved a lying Prophet Job instead of blaspheming God he blesseth God In all this Job charged not God foolishly I may say of it as in the Revelation twice 't is said of the Saints Here was the Patience of Job And it was that patient frame of Spirit that God had wrought in him which the Scripture so extolls that enabled him hereunto 5. Faith by Patience mortifies inordinate CARES Against the times of those great distresses that were to come upon the Jewish Nation and among them upon the Christian Jews in that nation afore the destruction of Jerusalem which would try every vein in their hearts Christ gives two special exhortations besides divers others Luke 21. The first In YOVR Patience that is that Patience which is truly Christian and properly Yours possess your own souls v. 19. The second Take heed to your selves least at any time your hearts be overcharged with the cares of this life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cares do as the word imports distract the Soul scatter it into wilde thoughts and wandring anxieties But Patience which Christ first exhorts to calls

of those struck him dumb afore God for that speech immediately follows v. 9. So the Church 7 Micah 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord for I have sinned against him A third Act comprehended in Jobs worshipping God is his blessing God as his words therewith also uttered shew which blessed frame and disposition of Spirit his Faith by Patience had wrought in him upon this occasion Lo his high sufferings cause him to bless the Lord Blessed be the Name of the Lord says he He blesseth him that he had given him at first and that he had afforded him those blessings of children and goods so long And he was thankful for that and thought it but reasonable that if he received good he should also receive evil as the pleasure of God was chap. 2. 10. He blesseth God also because he found that God had blessed him with such things and blessings Heavenly which could not be taken away He found the love of God the same still It is a sure rule We never bless God but when we find that God blesseth us first As we doe not love God but because God loves us first Now when the Soul finds that in afflictions and tentations God doth bless it this draws out from the Soul a blessing of God again And then doth the Soul say it is not only the will of my father therefore shall I not drink the Cup he gives me But it is the blessing of my Father and shall not I bless him for it In every thing give thanks saith the holy Apostle 1 Thes 5. 18. That is whatever the condition be still there is matter of thanks and so of blessing God III. Branch of the II. HEAD THE FRUITS OF PATIENCE THese the Apostles tearms the Peaceable quiet fruits of righteousness which Chastning yieldeth after ye have been exercised thereby and that is through Patience gained by those afflictions § The 1. Fruit it works contentment an holy contentment And that adds a perfection to the Other former works of this grace 4 Phil. 11. 12. I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and I know how to abound Every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need And he had learned it as Christ learnt his obedience through sufferings and by his having run thorow so great a variety of conditions A man may be content when he is not fully satisfied When God frames a mans estate to his will then he is satisfied as Psal 17. whose belly thou fillest with thy hidde● treasure But to be content is another thing It is not when have an estate according to my will but my will is brought to my estate And then I have as much content in that as in the greatest estate for life says Christ that is the comfort of life lyes not in abundance 'T is true such a man would choose rather as the Apostle speaks a full estate yet patience boweth his judgment to such an approbation of his present condition as that which is best for him as being that which out of Gods judgement and wisdom is allotted to him He so bends his Will unto such a correspondency with Gods will as he rests content 2. A second fruit of Patience is self-sufficiency the word is so 1 Tim. 6. 6. But Godliness with contentment is great gain The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated Contentment is a more reaching word by far To say Contentment that 's too bare and scant a word but this more amplysignifies self-sufficiency In 2 Cor. 9. 8. the same word is there translated sufficiency but still in the Greek it hath self added to sufficiency which imports a sufficiency within a mans self that he needs not go abroad for any thing he is sufficiently supplyed from what is within The words of that verse are And God is able to make all Grace abound towards you that ye always having all self-sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work which let us consider 'T is true that in the Word all Grace he includes an outward Grace of giving such an abundance of external Blessings as they might alwayes and in all things have enough for themselves and to spare yea to abound in every good work to others But yet the main of that Grace h● Centers in is an inward self-sufficiency in a mans own heart as without which they would never have satisfaction at home much less an heart to scatter abroad but a mans Natural self-unsufficiency as oppositely I call it would make his heart clung and narrow never contented in himself much less abounding to others though he had all the whole world So as indeed that is the Grace which the Apostle puts the weight upon THAT i● the Grace he Predicates So as the inference or Corrolary as to our purpose from thence may justly be That if on the other hand a true Christian be in never so great want or fallen into a condition of extream poverty Comparatively either unto what himself once had which is the case of many a good Soul now Or unto others who still abound yet if God give him this All Grace of inward self-sufficiency he may be and is still as content and sufficient within himself as those in that abounding condition which the Apostle wisheth unto those Corinthious And the Reason is that the self-sufficiency of him that hath the most of such things lyes not in those things but depends utterly upon that inward Grace spoken of or that inward frame of Spirit which this Grace composeth his Soul unto And this is evident from that place to Timothy first cited where it is that the Apostle ufoth the same word on purpose to comfort the Saints that were in a scant and bare Condition as to this World as the Coherence of verse 6 7 8 shews GODLINESS with SELF-SVFFICIENCY says he is great gain even virtually as much yea infinitely more then gaining all the World as Christs speech is which moreover is spoken with a Connexion to these words For 〈◊〉 brought nothing into this World And it is certain we carry nothing on t And therefore if we hav● nothing but food and rayment let us therewith be content so it follows And for so much God hath undertaken And the holy Apostle verifies this in himself that he had learned thus to be as Content when he wanted as when he abounded And in this frame we find elsewhere his mind to have been in the midst of all not wants only but pressures of all sorts Which also shews that Patience and Endurance through sufferings had been his Tutours and Instructiours thereunto For in a Cor. 6. chapter He having first reckoned up his sufferings v. 4. and made a Catalogue of them then in his final conclusion v. 10. he sums up all in this As SORROWFVL yet alwayes REJOYCING As poor yet