Our Need of Patience
November 20.
Ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
HEBREWS 10, verse 36.
Sweet Patience, come:
Not from a low and earthly source,
Waiting, till things shall have their course,
Not as accepting present pain
In hope of some hereafter gain,
Not in a dull and sullen calm,
But as a breath of heavenly balm,
Bidding my weary heart submit
To bear whatever God sees fit:
Sweet Patience, come!
HYMNS OF THE CHURCH MILITANT.
Patience endues her scholars with content
of mind, and evenness of temper, preventing
all repining grumbling, and impatient desires,
and inordinate affections; disappointments
here are no crosses, and all anxious thoughts
are disarmed of their sting; in her habitations
dwell quietness, submission, and long-suffering,
all fierce turbulent inclinations are hereby
allayed. The eyes of the patient fixedly wait the
inward power of God's providence, and they
are thereby mightily enabled towards their
salvation and preservation.
THOMAS TRYON.
Ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
HEBREWS 10, verse 36.
Sweet Patience, come:
Not from a low and earthly source,
Waiting, till things shall have their course,
Not as accepting present pain
In hope of some hereafter gain,
Not in a dull and sullen calm,
But as a breath of heavenly balm,
Bidding my weary heart submit
To bear whatever God sees fit:
Sweet Patience, come!
HYMNS OF THE CHURCH MILITANT.
Patience endues her scholars with content
of mind, and evenness of temper, preventing
all repining grumbling, and impatient desires,
and inordinate affections; disappointments
here are no crosses, and all anxious thoughts
are disarmed of their sting; in her habitations
dwell quietness, submission, and long-suffering,
all fierce turbulent inclinations are hereby
allayed. The eyes of the patient fixedly wait the
inward power of God's providence, and they
are thereby mightily enabled towards their
salvation and preservation.
THOMAS TRYON.
