17 you. which is to try you, as if upon you.-But let none of some new thing happened to you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a railer, or a 1 Pt4, 13- If you partake of the coveter of other men's things. sufferings of Christ, rejoice-But if as a Christian, let that when His glory shall be him not be ashamed; but let revealed, you may also be him glorify God in that glad with exceeding joy.-name.-For the time is that If you be reproached for the judgment should begin at the Name of Christ, you shall be House of God. And if first blessed for that which is at us, what shall be the end of the honour, glory, and of them that believe not the power of God, and that Gospel of God? : which is His Spirit, resteth Shew thyself a man. 5. TO SUFFER FOR CHRIST A GREAT HAPPINESS. 1 Pt2, 19- This is thanks-worthy, if your reward is very great in for conscience towards God, Heaven; for so they perse 21 Ph 1, 29 30 1 Pt 3, 14 Mt 5, 1012 a man endure sorrows, suffer-cuted the Prophets that were 3 K 2, 2 26 glory is it, if committing sin, By faith Moses, when he He 11, 24- Him, but also to suffer for If the world hate you, Jn 15, 18- He 13, 13 He 10, 36 But all these things they will bearing His reproach. do to you for My Name's Christ having suffered in 1 Pt 4,1 6.-ETERNAL LIFE, JOY OF SOUL, HEALTH OF Patience is necessary for fect and entire, failing in : 6-7 God, you may receive the God hath regenerated us 1 Pt 1,4 promise. unto an inheritance incorRo 8,16-17 We are the sons of God.-ruptible,-Wherein you shall And if sons, heirs also: heirs greatly rejoice, if now you indeed of God, and joint- must be for a little time heirs with Christ: yet so, if made sorrowful in divers we suffer with Him, that we temptations :-That the trial may be also glorified with of your faith [much more Him. precious than gold, which is The patience of the poor tried by the fire] may be found shall not perish for ever. unto praise, and glory, and A patient man shall bear honour, at the appearing of for a time, and afterwards Jesus Christ. joy shall be restored to him. Ps 9, 19 Eci 1, 29 Ap 3, 10 Lu 8, 15 Lu 21, 19 Ja 1,4 Patience [worketh] trial, Ro 5, 4-5 and trial hope :-And hope Because thou hast kept the confoundeth not. word of My patience, I will The Lord gave Job twice Jb 42, 10 also keep thee from the hour as much as he had before. That on the good ground By patience a prince shall Pv 25, 15 wrongs. man Po 19, 11 Patience hath a perfect The fruit of the Spirit is Ga 5, 22 work that you may be per- charity, joy, peace, patience. : 7. -EXHORTATIONS TO PATIENCE. Eci 2, 2-5 Humble thy heart and understanding: and make endure incline thine : and receive the words ear, not haste in the time of Je 29, 11 patience join thyself to God, head, laying aside every I know the thoughts that I think diligently upon Him Mt 5, 39 Ro 12, 12 Ep 4, 1-2 1 T5, 14 Ro 15, 4 : not faint when thou art chas- Be patient, brethren, until Ja 5, 7-11 : 1 Ti 6, 11 Thou, O man of God, fly the Saints, who keep the He 12, 1-4 We also having so great a I know thy works, and thy Ap 2, 2-3 labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not 1 K3, 18 2 K 16, 10 12 bear them that are evil:, and hast not fainted. And thou hast patience, and Thou art my patience, O Ps 70,5 hast endured for My Name, Lord. 8.-NOTABLE EXAMPLES AND REWARDS OF PATIENCE. It is the Lord: let Him do bless God and die.—And he what is good in His sight. said to her: Thou hast spoken Let him alone and let like one of the foolish women : him curse for the Lord hath if we have received good bid him curse David: and things at the hand of God, who is he that shall dare why should we not receive say, Why hath he done so ?- evil? In all these things Job Let him alone that he may did not sin with his lips. curse as the Lord hath bidden We make known unto you, 2 C 8, 1-2 him. Perhaps the Lord may brethren, the grace of God, look upon my affliction, and that hath been given in the the Lord may render me good Churches of Macedonia.for the cursing of this day. That in much experience of Jb 1, 20- Then Job rose up, and tribulation, they have had rent his garments, and abundance of joy. 21 Jb2, 7-10 Ps 70,5 Jb 23, 17 having shaven his head, Because thou hast kept Ap 3, 10 Satan went forth from the thousand camels, and a thou- 9. ASPIRATIONS OF THE SOUL SIGHING FOR Thou art my patience, Lord. O[because of the darkness that Grant that I may not perish Ps 61, 1 Ps 26, 14 Eci 1, 28 Eci 2, 1617 Jb 18, 4 Pv 14, 17 Pv 19, 19 Be thou, O my soul, sub- Blessed art Thou, O Lord; Ps 118, 12 ject to God, for from Him is teach me Thy justifications. my salvation. Princes sat, and spoke Ps 118, 23 Expect the Lord, do man- against me; but Thy servant fully, and let thy heart take was employed in Thy justificourage, and wait thou for cations. For Thy testimonies the Lord. are my meditation. 10. PENALTIES OF IMPATIENCE; MURMURING. He that is without fear, hath touched thee, and thou cannot be justified: for the art troubled.-Where is thy wrath of his high spirits is fear, thy fortitude, thy his ruin. patience, and the perfection Wo to them that have lost of thy ways? patience, and that have for- He hath heard your mur- Ex 16,8 saken the right ways, and murings with which you have have gone aside into crooked murmured against Him, for ways. And what will they what are we? Your murmurdo, when the Lord shall ing is not against us, but begin to examine? against the Lord. 13 Thou that destroyeth thy This is the thing in which Jb 33, 12soul in thy fury, shall the thou art not justified: I will earth be forsaken for thee, answer thee that God is and shall rocks be removed greater than man. - Dost out of their place? The impatient man shall work folly. He that is impatient shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away he shall add another thing. thou strive against Him, be- Say not: What thinkest Ecl 7, 11 Jd8, 24-25 They that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Why hath a living man La 3, 39 Lord, but uttered their im- murmured, man suffering for patience and the reproach of his sins? Jb 4, 3-6 their murmuring against the Do not murmur: as some 1 C 10, 10 Lord, Were destroyed by of them murmured and were |