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501 13| easily communicates the gifts" of the Spirit with its
502 15| foot; drives away scandals; gives their crowning grace to
503 7 | impatience of a loss, does, by giving things earthly the precedence
504 15| eyebrows evenly relaxed in gladsome wise, with eyes downcast
505 5 | he demands from Aaron "gods as his guides;" when he
506 9 | death is departure. He who goes before us is not to be lamented,
507 5 | the contributions of his gold: for the so necessary delays
508 9 | moderation the fact that one is gone away whom you will presently
509 14| to damages of our worldly goods, nor to losses of those
510 13| order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (we
511 1 | their ostentation of wisdom. Grand testimony this is to it,
512 1 | pursuits they have joined in granting peace: for it they conspire;
513 3 | a certain way, has been grasped by hand among men openly
514 8 | alone is enough for you; but gratified, into the bargain, by your
515 10| fellow-servants, we are gravely offended; while such as
516 5 | themselves; and that they grew up indivisible in one paternal
517 7 | loss, we feel impatiently, grieving for what is lost from what
518 3 | born, bears the delay of growing up; and, when grown up,
519 3 | of growing up; and, when grown up, is not eager to be recognised,
520 5 | from Aaron "gods as his guides;" when he pours down for
521 16| of their liberty to their gullet. Such pursuits of patience
522 13| bonds, the flesh in the gyve, the flesh in solitude,
523 15| general idea of her mien and habit. Her countenance is tranquil
524 13| the Spirit with its bodily habitation. What, therefore, is the
525 15| Without His companion and handmaid, He must of necessity be
526 13| in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (
527 13| persecution. If flight press hard, the flesh wars with the
528 12| by lopping off chagrin, hardheartedness, and bitterness, which are
529 8 | a rock of most stedfast hardness. For it will wholly fall
530 5 | impatient of" either the hatred or the avarice. Whatever
531 15| guilt; the motion of her head frequent against the devil,
532 10| altogether, or else to vanish headlong. Moreover, if you avenge
533 15| Restorer; if pain, He is a Healer; if death, He is a Reviver.
534 6 | Lord, he patiently both heard, and (if God had willed)
535 5 | except through impatience of hearing them? on the Lord moreover
536 7 | ought to endure without heart-sickness the cutting down or taking
537 7 | would himself readily or heartily lay hand on his own property
538 16| XVI. THE PATIENCE OF THE HEATHEN VERY DIFFERENT FROM CHRISTIAN
539 1 | miserable, ever sick with the heats of impatience, must of necessity
540 8 | contumely, it shall receive a heavier one from the Lord. You wound
541 6 | accredited with righteousness. So heavy a precept, the perfect execution
542 | here
543 14| erect in the person of that hero! What a banner did He rear
544 | herself
545 13| we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily
546 7 | play the bandit along the highway. But us, according to the
547 5 | immediately on being met by him--I may say so without rashness--
548 7 | hesitate to essay; when they hire themselves for sport and
549 2 | and celestial discipline, holding up before us God Himself
550 13| she who is entrusted by holiness with the care of continence
551 5 | impatience, if Cain, that first homicide and first fratricide, had
552 5 | of modesty; dishonest of honesty; impious of piety; unquiet
553 15| her mouth sealed with the honourable mark of silence; her hue
554 5 | sinned at all, if she had honoured the divine edict by maintaining
555 13| means of the sacrifice of humiliation--in making a libation to
556 3 | fires should be forthwith hurled on so contumelious a town.
557 11| the Evil One's operation, hurling manifold irritations of
558 8 | may be pained; because the hurter's enjoyment consists in
559 10| each stands impeached of hurting a man in the eye of the
560 5 | friendship with God, and the husbandman of paradise. But when once
561 16| that, I mean, which, making husbands venal for dowry, and teaching
562 5 | How, therefore, can such a hydra of delinquencies fail to
563 15| whether we have a general idea of her mien and habit. Her
564 5 | when he pours down for an idol the contributions of his
565 2 | II. GOD HIMSELF AN EXAMPLE
566 3 | III. JESUS CHRIST IN HIS INCARNATION
567 6 | because "patient." So faith, illumined by patience, when it was
568 5 | which He had made to His own image, that is, to man. For if
569 5 | transmitter of that which she had imbibed from the Evil One? Therefore
570 3 | INCARNATION AND WORK A MORE IMITABLE EXAMPLE THEREOF.~And this
571 3 | Himself in man's shape, imitated nought of man's impatience !
572 4 | IV. DUTY OF IMITATING OUR MASTER TAUGHT US BY
573 4 | EVEN BY BEASTS. OBEDIENT IMITATION IS FOUNDED ON PATIENCE.~
574 5 | man into crime. The woman, immediately on being met by him--I may
575 5 | that very thing which had immersed Adam and Eve in death, taught
576 5 | impatience of good." None immodest is not impatient of modesty;
577 6 | faith, when he was bidden to immolate his son, with a view to (
578 13| the Lord; by the bodily immolation of patience not only recovered
579 5 | first was--malicious or impatient--I scorn to inquire: since
580 10| posterior? Yet each stands impeached of hurting a man in the
581 8 | Again, it is said that "impeachment awaits us for every vain
582 8 | sent it out, with retorted impetus. No doubt the reason why
583 5 | modesty; dishonest of honesty; impious of piety; unquiet of quietness.
584 8 | hurt at the loss of less important things? Far from a servant
585 13| inconvenience of flight; if imprisonment overtake us, the flesh (
586 11| we ourselves, either by imprudence or else voluntarily, draw
587 1 | rash enough, if not even impudent, in me to have dared compose
588 5 | guilt of impatience, is imputed to man? Innocent he was,
589 3 | III. JESUS CHRIST IN HIS INCARNATION AND WORK A MORE IMITABLE
590 1 | this is to it, in that it incites even the vain schools of
591 13| the flesh wars with the inconvenience of flight; if imprisonment
592 4 | God understands what is incumbent on it. Lest, however, we
593 11| snares of the Evil One, we incur the Lord's reproofs. Of
594 5 | Whence (came)the first indignation in God, thence (came) His
595 5 | themselves; and that they grew up indivisible in one paternal bosom. But,
596 15| Patience accompanies Him indivisibly. If we do not give admission
597 5 | judgment; hence, whence man was induced to offend, God began to
598 10| still he has taken care to indulge the impatience of a judger,
599 4 | same which, through the indulgence of your neighbour, you obtain
600 5 | a certain sense) in her infancy. But how great presently
601 5 | breathed on by a spirit infected with impatience: so certain
602 15| person, as being neither inflated nor disturbed. For Patience
603 15| Whatever blow His enemy may inflict He will be unable to endure
604 8 | For every injury, whether inflicted by tongue or hand, when
605 5 | s case from the instant infliction of punishment. Else what
606 3 | effect and excellence of some inherent propriety, patience is God'
607 2 | bearing with luxury, avarice, iniquity, malignity, waxing insolent
608 11| necessary is the remedy for the injury--patience. Let us strive,
609 5 | impatience, is imputed to man? Innocent he was, and in intimate
610 5 | or impatient--I scorn to inquire: since manifest it is that
611 2 | equanimity, modelled by insensibility, furnishes the warrant for
612 4 | however, we seem to have inserted remarks on obedience as
613 9 | our hope, and is a dealing insincerely with the faith. And we wound
614 2 | iniquity, malignity, waxing insolent daily: so that by His own
615 1 | only the grace of divine inspiration is effectual for attaining
616 5 | the devil's case from the instant infliction of punishment.
617 5 | But, however, having been instructed, by his own experiment,
618 14| shield of his patience, that instrument of God's victory not only
619 15| alone, being without the instrumental means of enduring.~
620 1 | as of some ills too--is insupportable, so that only the grace
621 7 | of all evils." Let us not interpret that covetousness as consisting
622 5 | Innocent he was, and in intimate friendship with God, and
623 12| which Christ's patience introduced; hope, which man's patience
624 13| joining fasts to all this; in inuring herself to sackcloth and
625 1 | solace; after the manner of invalids, who since they are without
626 16| and of such as give them invitations; impatient of God alone.
627 15| delight of the believer; invites the Gentile; commends the
628 1 | necessity sigh after, and invoke, and persistently plead
629 10| repaid with evil. Like deed involves like merit. How shall we
630 7 | not to lose, finds it not irksome to give. Else how will one,
631 4 | on obedience as something irrelevant, (let us remember) that
632 12| her neighbours: "nor is irritable;" if she were, what would
633 11| operation, hurling manifold irritations of our spirit, and sometimes
634 5 | through impatience that Israel himself also always failed
635 13| there is of strengthening, it--that is by patience--to
636 16| leader's patience look to itself--a patience which the subterraneous
637 4 | IV. DUTY OF IMITATING OUR MASTER
638 9 | IX. OF PATIENCE UNDER BEREAVEMENT.~
639 10| servitude, affectionately jealous of the right of their lord'
640 12| over our wrath," we are in jeopardy: we are not allowed to remain
641 3 | III. JESUS CHRIST IN HIS INCARNATION
642 14| evil one cut asunder, while Job with mighty equanimity kept
643 1 | their pursuits they have joined in granting peace: for it
644 13| pure drink of water in con joining fasts to all this; in inuring
645 14| him "in that day." · Such joy as that --secure so entirely
646 10| Judge not, lest ye be judged," does He not require patience?
647 10| indulge the impatience of a judger, and has taken away the
648 10| not revenging himself? Who judges in order to pardon? And
649 10| For who will refrain from judging another, but he who shall
650 7 | amid no riches. He always justifies the poor, fore-condemns
651 7 | lose things earthly, let us keep things heavenly. Perish
652 5 | ears, she is impatient of keeping silence, and makes him the
653 14| Job with mighty equanimity kept scraping off the unclean
654 5 | then, he could neither have killed unless he had been wroth,
655 13| clemency. Thus that Babylonish king, after being exiled from
656 6 | attestation of his faith. But God knew whom He had accredited with
657 2 | they are so long without knowing that He is wroth with the
658 6 | because that alone had been lacking unto the doctrine of righteousness.
659 5 | thirst; for this also is laid to their charge by the Lord
660 3 | more opens His mouth than a lamb under the power of the shearer,")
661 9 | goes before us is not to be lamented, though by all means to
662 4 | Who, then, could treat largely (enough) of the good of
663 15| against the devil, and her laugh threatening; her clothing,
664 11| such, "consolation" and "laughter" are promised. "Blessed
665 8 | same fate as, some weapon launched against and blunted on a
666 5 | shortly found for itself it lays collectively on the account
667 12| since Patience takes the lead in every species of salutary
668 15| the whirlwind, nor in the leaden hue of the cloud but is
669 16| let their own and their leader's patience look to itself--
670 1 | they conspire; for it they league; it, in their affectation
671 10| will avenge; " that is, Leave patience to me, and I will
672 12| were, what would she have left to Impatience? Accordingly
673 4 | their chin, or in any other legal way are debtors to obedience?
674 3 | whom, had He willed it, legions of angels would at one word
675 5 | husband, not yet bound to lend her his ears, she is impatient
676 13| humiliation--in making a libation to the Lord of sordid raiment,
677 16| the subjection of their liberty to their gullet. Such pursuits
678 8 | tongue or hand, when it has lighted upon patience, will be dismissed
679 4 | masters. Do we hesitate to listen diligently to Him to whom
680 8 | blessed. If I hear with too little equanimity some wanton or
681 11| contemn from their very littleness; to the very great ones
682 1 | together with the world (it lives in).~
683 10| our loathing we shall not loathe revenge? What honour, moreover,
684 10| that principle, if in our loathing we shall not loathe revenge?
685 9 | though by all means to be longed for. That longing also must
686 9 | means to be longed for. That longing also must be tempered with
687 15| childhood, praised in youth, looked up to in age; is beauteous
688 12| unless he first begin by lopping off chagrin, hardheartedness,
689 5 | unfruitful. In edification no loquacity is base, if it be base at
690 14| entirely concerning the Lord--he deferred; meantime he
691 7 | in their cupidities of lucre, they encounter the gainful
692 2 | His family; bearing with luxury, avarice, iniquity, malignity,
693 10| too slightly, you will be mad; if too amply, you will
694 5 | honoured the divine edict by maintaining her patience to the end.
695 3 | wounded in (the wound of) Malchus. And so, too, He cursed
696 5 | of perdition" first was--malicious or impatient--I scorn to
697 13| more to be desired by a man--made satisfaction to God.
698 15| she has to do with all His mandates. She fortifies faith; is
699 3 | reason and rearing--proves manifestly enough (not by the sermons
700 11| One's operation, hurling manifold irritations of our spirit,
701 5 | After the edible rain of the manna, after the watery following
702 8 | attempt to provoke you by manual violence, the monition of
703 11| classed. Again, when He marks "the peacemakers" with the
704 15| their crowning grace to martyrdoms; consoles the poor; teaches
705 4 | obey, acknowledge their masters. Do we hesitate to listen
706 11| BEATITUDES.~After these principal material causes of impatience, registered
707 9 | Besides, impatience in matters of this kind bodes ill for
708 5 | sale is regulated. These (I mention) as the principal delinquencies
709 3 | Patience, the mother of Mercy. I pass by in silence (the
710 10| Like deed involves like merit. How shall we observe that
711 14| glory, when, at every bitter message, that man uttered nothing
712 15| have a general idea of her mien and habit. Her countenance
713 10| patience we not only approve as mindful of humility, of servitude,
714 3 | despise: indeed, Himself ministered to the washing of the disciples'
715 12| wonder that she likewise ministers to Repentance, (accustomed
716 10| that is, God. How many mischances had impatience of this kind
717 1 | its blessings. So I, most miserable, ever sick with the heats
718 13| patience of the world's misusage. When, however, it is led
719 11| counter-zeal of our equanimity may mock the zeal of the foe. If,
720 2 | affectation of canine equanimity, modelled by insensibility, furnishes
721 8 | by manual violence, the monition of the Lord is at hand: "
722 5 | the so necessary delays of Moses, while he met with God,
723 15| care and without guilt; the motion of her head frequent against
724 11| He, "are the weepers and mourners." Who, without patience,
725 8 | else I shall be racked with mute impatience. When, then,
726 1 | place, that, while they are mutually at discord with the various
727 7 | give the one of them to the naked, unless he be a man likewise
728 11| same title of felicity, and names them "sons of God," pray
729 5 | Therefore I detect the nativity of impatience in the devil
730 5 | proceeding of a discussion on the necessaries of faith is not idle, because
731 13| seat, no patience is more needed there than badly patience.
732 13| seven years' squalor and neglect., because he had offended
733 12| provided she may benefit her neighbours: "nor is irritable;" if
734 | Nevertheless
735 3 | in man's shape, imitated nought of man's impatience ! Hence,
736 11| saith He, "I chasten." O blessed servant, on whose
737 4 | SLAVES. EVEN BY BEASTS. OBEDIENT IMITATION IS FOUNDED ON
738 5 | refusal by the Lord of his own oblations--if he is not wroth with
739 12| persist in the perpetual observance of widowhood), she waits
740 13| proof of happiness, unto the occasion of the second baptism, unto
741 10| on the other, is always odious to the Lord; in this case
742 5 | impatience unto every use offensive to God. For straightway
743 12| she seek her own" if, she offers her own, provided she may
744 2 | light; who suffers the good offices of the seasons, the services
745 | often
746 14| for pardon to his foes. Oh, happy also he who met all
747 15| but is of soft serenity, open and simple, whom Elias saw
748 3 | grasped by hand among men openly on the earth? God suffers
749 11| diffusive is the Evil One's operation, hurling manifold irritations
750 6 | impatience used to enjoy the opportunities which the law gave. That
751 7 | patience "loss," and to opulence "contempt" (as portion);
752 1 | patience they exhibit all their ostentation of wisdom. Grand testimony
753 5 | from the very beginning the outcome of anger, whatever causes
754 12| are in fact the poisonous outgrowths of impatience? How will
755 8 | the Lord. You wound that outrageous one more by enduring: for
756 8 | other cheek likewise." Let outrageousness be wearied out by your patience.
757 1 | of it, even they who live outside it, honour with the name
758 14| scraping off the unclean overflow of his own ulcer, while
759 11| yield in regard of their overpoweringness. Where the injury is less,
760 15| teaches the rich moderation; overstrains not the weak; exhausts not
761 13| flight; if imprisonment overtake us, the flesh (still was)
762 9 | before us, who says, "Be not overwhelmed with sadness at the falling
763 16| the patience which He has paid down for us! Let us offer
764 14| in vain. For by all his pains he was not drawn away from
765 16| teaching them to trade in panderings, makes them subject to the
766 12| touching patience in the Lord's parables. The shepherd's patience
767 5 | God, and the husbandman of paradise. But when once he succumbed
768 5 | therefore she is the only parent stem, too, to every delinquency,
769 3 | the mother of Mercy. I pass by in silence (the fact)
770 5 | grew up indivisible in one paternal bosom. But, however, having
771 5 | But had they entered the path of patience, they would
772 13| strengthening, it--that is by patience--to meet every preparation
773 9 | right to grief acts the patron to it. For the consideration
774 16| belly submit to contumelious patronage, in the subjection of their
775 10| following out revenge, and by paying wickedness doubles that
776 15| countenance is tranquil and peaceful; her brow serene contracted
777 11| Again, when He marks "the peacemakers" with the same title of
778 12| emulous;" that certainly is a peculiar mark of patience: "savours
779 4 | on an eternity either of penalty or of salvation; for the
780 11| peace?" Even a fool may perceive that. When, however, He
781 6 | So heavy a precept, the perfect execution whereof was not
782 7 | they encounter the gainful perils of commerce on the sea;
783 12| faith, hope, charity, are permanent:" Faith, which Christ's
784 5 | the sake of prey, any one perpetrates that wickedness, the earlier
785 12| wife, to persist in the perpetual observance of widowhood),
786 11| as they shall curse and persecute you; for very great is your
787 2 | works of their own hands, persecuting His Name together with His
788 13| flesh, does battle under persecution. If flight press hard, the
789 6 | cursers, and pray for your persecutors, that ye may be sons of
790 5 | evil he will be unable to persevere in being good. How, therefore,
791 12| for husband or wife, to persist in the perpetual observance
792 1 | sigh after, and invoke, and persistently plead for, that health of
793 12| for, she yearns for, she persuades by her entreaties, repentance
794 4 | the whole mind by such as pertain to God? By means of which (
795 6 | our spirits retained, the petulance of the hand checked, the
796 3 | any other trait, ought ye, Pharisees, to have recognised the
797 1 | name of highest virtue. Philosophers indeed, who are accounted
798 5 | dishonest of honesty; impious of piety; unquiet of quietness. In
799 15| fortifies faith; is the pilot of peace; assists charity;
800 9 | Him, as if they were to be pitied. "I desire," says the apostle, "
801 14| and feeding-places of his pitted flesh! And so, when all
802 7 | will answer in their own places. If our spirit is aroused
803 3 | attestation of God Himself, placing His own Spirit, together
804 7 | manner of wild beasts, they play the bandit along the highway.
805 1 | invoke, and persistently plead for, that health of patience
806 14| and the faith which he had plighted to the Lord; whom the devil
807 3 | stedfastly abstained from pointing him out. Moreover, while
808 6 | of the hand checked, the poison of the tongue extracted.
809 12| bitterness, which are in fact the poisonous outgrowths of impatience?
810 7 | opulence "contempt" (as portion); demonstrating, by means
811 1 | health of patience which I possess not; while I recall to mind,
812 14| soundness of his body, but possessed in redoubled measure what
813 1 | does any other than He who possesses it dispense it, as He deems
814 5 | compels a man, it is not possible that without impatience
815 11| surely, the impatient cannot possibly be classed. Again, when
816 10| evil-doing, but the latter as posterior? Yet each stands impeached
817 10| so just in estimating, so potent in executing? Why, then,
818 5 | too, to every delinquency, pouring down from her own fount
819 5 | as his guides;" when he pours down for an idol the contributions
820 7 | world; nor is there any more powerful exhortation to contempt
821 1 | first be conspicuous in the practice of that thing, and should
822 11| unless he have learnt to practise patience.~
823 16| goodness to apply it to foul practises: patient they live of rivals,
824 1 | schools of the world unto praise and glory ! Or is it rather
825 15| is loved in childhood, praised in youth, looked up to in
826 14| Stephen is stoned, and prays for pardon to his foes.
827 6 | the law, made patience her pre-eminent coadjutrix for amplifying
828 10| satisfaction than they would have pre-exacted for themselves. Is there
829 14| been called father; but he preferred to have them restored him "
830 5 | both in regard of God's premonition and in regard of the devil'
831 13| patience--to meet every preparation for subverting or punishing
832 8 | patience which has been prepared for greater temptations
833 4 | were in the compendium of a prescriptive rule, established.~
834 3 | angels would at one word have presented themselves from the heavens,
835 15| confession; rules the flesh; preserves the spirit; bridles the
836 13| under persecution. If flight press hard, the flesh wars with
837 12| confers on each! The one she prevents from becoming an adulterer;
838 5 | enmities, or for the sake of prey, any one perpetrates that
839 5 | modesty is forced by the price, of course it is by impatience
840 5 | consideration may appear how primarily adverse it is to faith.
841 10| How shall we observe that principle, if in our loathing we shall
842 10| the former is detected as prior in evil-doing, but the latter
843 5 | origin. For whether from private enmities, or for the sake
844 4 | if we see all servants of probity and right feeling shaping
845 5 | IMPATIENCE.~Nevertheless, the proceeding of a discussion on the necessaries
846 12| the forsaken sinner. That prodigal son also the father's patience
847 5 | conceived of the devil's seed, produced, in the fecundity of malice,
848 6 | judgment." Anger has been prohibited, our spirits retained, the
849 10| eye of the Lord, who both prohibits and condemns every wickedness.
850 11| exultation that He makes that promise; because no one will "exult"
851 11| consolation" and "laughter" are promised. "Blessed are the gentle:"
852 12| who in the world that is prone to impatience will even
853 7 | has through the apostle pronounced "a root of all evils." Let
854 13| says this about the flesh, pronouncing it "weak," He shows what
855 13| led forth unto the final proof of happiness, unto the occasion
856 6 | patience, when it was becoming propagated among the nations through"
857 12| consummation. "Tongues, sciences, prophecies, become exhausted; faith,
858 3 | did not quench: for the prophet--nay, the attestation of
859 3 | excellence of some inherent propriety, patience is God's nature.~
860 1 | suggest to others should prove a tutorship into exhibiting
861 6 | but it was patience which proved his faith, when he was bidden
862 8 | ones. If one attempt to provoke you by manual violence,
863 10| difference is there between provoker and provoked, except that
864 3 | feet; not sinners, not publicans, did He repel; not with
865 12| self-restraint from patience: "is not puffed up; is not violent;" for
866 13| preparation for subverting or punishing faith; that it may bear
867 5 | the instant infliction of punishment. Else what crime, before
868 13| with simple diet and the pure drink of water in con joining
869 13| after it in body, for the purpose of "winning the Lord;" inasmuch
870 1 | virtue, they unanimously pursue; concerning patience they
871 7 | love it so much as not to put up with its loss? We shall
872 11| patience, from whatever quarter, either by our own errors
873 3 | smoking flax He did not quench: for the prophet--nay, the
874 12| undertakes the labour of the quest, and the patient burden-bearer
875 5 | impious of piety; unquiet of quietness. In order that each individual
876 8 | bitterness, or else I shall be racked with mute impatience. When,
877 8 | will recoil and spend its rage on him who sent it out,
878 13| libation to the Lord of sordid raiment, together with scantiness
879 5 | impatience. After the edible rain of the manna, after the
880 13| the virgin the seal and raises the self-made eunuch to
881 1 | Lord God that it has been rash enough, if not even impudent,
882 5 | him--I may say so without rashness--was, through his very speech
883 | rather
884 12| he first, with intent to "re-conciliate his brother," return to
885 7 | carelessness, would himself readily or heartily lay hand on
886 13| self-made eunuch to the realms of heaven. That which springs
887 14| hero! What a banner did He rear over the enemy of His glory,
888 3 | among us its reason and rearing--proves manifestly enough (
889 11| XI. FURTHER REASONS FOR PRACTISING PATIENCE.
890 1 | which I possess not; while I recall to mind, and, in the contemplation
891 12| also the father's patience receives, and clothes, and feeds,
892 8 | labour; and sometimes will recoil and spend its rage on him
893 14| his body, but possessed in redoubled measure what he had lost.
894 3 | did not break the bruised reed; the smoking flax He did
895 5 | did through wrath must be referred to that by which wrath was
896 10| require patience? For who will refrain from judging another, but
897 5 | time with malediction only, refrained in the devil's case from
898 5 | and not impatiently the refusal by the Lord of his own oblations--
899 3 | that city even which had refused to receive Him was He wroth,
900 5 | observe the former nor to refute the latter. Hence, whence (
901 7 | also are not to be much regarded. Of that, therefore, which
902 12| CONNECTION WITH PATIENCE.~As regards the rule of peace, which
903 11| material causes of impatience, registered to the best of our ability,
904 5 | contemning gain that this sale is regulated. These (I mention) as the
905 3 | nations indeed a cause for rejection of the faith, but among
906 15| anger; her eyebrows evenly relaxed in gladsome wise, with eyes
907 4 | we seem to have inserted remarks on obedience as something
908 14| him to resort to crooked remedies! How did God smile, how
909 4 | something irrelevant, (let us remember) that obedience" itself
910 12| How will you "remit, and remission shall be granted" you? if
911 12| impatience? How will you "remit, and remission shall be
912 4 | Never does an impatient man render it, or a patient fail to
913 10| that evil is not to be repaid with evil. Like deed involves
914 3 | sinners, not publicans, did He repel; not with that city even
915 3 | by His own servant; and repels with words alone the assaults
916 10| run into! How oft has it repented of its revenge! How oft
917 14| ulcer, while he sportively replaced the vermin that brake out
918 10| regulate? Whereas, if I shall repose on patience, I shall not
919 8 | break out in malediction or reproach, look back at the saying, "
920 7 | demonstrating, by means of (His own) repudiation of riches, that hurts done
921 5 | particular good, the subject requires us to review also the contrary
922 12| Repentance is to come to the rescue of such as have fallen,)
923 14| ills, and urging him to resort to crooked remedies! How
924 5 | impatience committed in each respect, both in regard of God's
925 11| out of our way among the rest,--what are found at home,
926 3 | of the sword; and, by the restoration of health, made satisfaction
927 15| Avenger; if a loss, He is a Restorer; if pain, He is a Healer;
928 15| spirit; bridles the tongue; restrains the hand; tramples temptations
929 1 | them. For what is most good rests most with God; nor does
930 10| any risk of a different result in the case of a Lord so
931 6 | prohibited, our spirits retained, the petulance of the hand
932 8 | necessity either myself retaliate the bitterness, or else
933 8 | him who sent it out, with retorted impetus. No doubt the reason
934 8 | adversary's disappointment, and revenged by his pain. This is the
935 10| shall be patient in not revenging himself? Who judges in order
936 14| not drawn away from his reverence for God; but he has been
937 5 | the subject requires us to review also the contrary of that
938 15| Healer; if death, He is a Reviver. What honour is granted
939 11| Of that duty great is the reward--namely, happiness. For whom
940 5 | either impatience took its rise together with malice, or
941 10| themselves. Is there any risk of a different result in
942 1 | fancies of their sects and rivalries of their sentiments, yet,
943 16| practises: patient they live of rivals, and of the rich, and of
944 15| who is not found in the roll of the whirlwind, nor in
945 3 | receive. No one's table or roof did He despise: indeed,
946 7 | the apostle pronounced "a root of all evils." Let us not
947 9 | whose sake He both died and rose again. Since, then, there
948 5 | impatience. And--not to rove through individual cases--
949 14| children in one swoop of ruin, nor, finally, the agony
950 15| tier seal on confession; rules the flesh; preserves the
951 13| if it is true that the ruling mind easily communicates
952 13| this; in inuring herself to sackcloth and ashes. This bodily patience
953 12| is Charity--the highest sacrament of the faith, the treasure-house
954 13| the Lord by means of the sacrifice of humiliation--in making
955 13| save in patience, is the safety of the spirit, and of the
956 8 | his mouth." Again, it is said that "impeachment awaits
957 14| BODILY. EXEMPLIFIED IN THE SAINTS OF OLD.~With this strength
958 12| lead in every species of salutary discipline, what wonder
959 3 | depart, He wished to be sated with the pleasure of patience.
960 13| patience, "weak," where, save in patience, is the safety
961 12| therefore, who "had perished" is saved, because he entered on the
962 5 | quite ceased to be of sweet savour to God; he quite ceased
963 12| peculiar mark of patience: "savours not of violence:" she has
964 15| open and simple, whom Elias saw at his third essay. For
965 15| under foot; drives away scandals; gives their crowning grace
966 13| sordid raiment, together with scantiness of food, content with simple
967 2 | example of patience; who scatters equally over just and unjust
968 1 | it incites even the vain schools of the world unto praise
969 5 | malicious or impatient--I scorn to inquire: since manifest
970 3 | patience. He is spitted on, scourged, derided, clad foully, more
971 14| with mighty equanimity kept scraping off the unclean overflow
972 7 | commonished by the Lord's Scriptures, in almost every place,
973 7 | perils of commerce on the sea; when, for money's sake,
974 15| in unhappiness; her mouth sealed with the honourable mark
975 2 | the good offices of the seasons, the services of the elements,
976 13| of ascending the divine seat, no patience is more needed
977 13| unto the occasion of the second baptism, unto the act of
978 1 | various fancies of their sects and rivalries of their sentiments,
979 14| day." · Such joy as that --secure so entirely concerning the
980 5 | through impatience likewise of seeing Him? But had they entered
981 12| The shepherd's patience seeks and finds the straying ewe:
982 16| acquainted with; and they eagerly seize a name of so great goodness
983 4 | carried about in His own self? To whom, again, would it
984 13| the seal and raises the self-made eunuch to the realms of
985 12| violence:" she has drawn her self-restraint from patience: "is not puffed
986 5 | impatience, then (in a certain sense) in her infancy. But how
987 1 | sects and rivalries of their sentiments, yet, having a community
988 10| of order, nor does place separate what similarity conjoins.
989 15| tranquil and peaceful; her brow serene contracted by no wrinkle
990 15| the cloud but is of soft serenity, open and simple, whom Elias
991 3 | manifestly enough (not by the sermons only, in enjoining, but
992 10| earthen vessels. With our own servant-boys, if they assume to themselves
993 2 | offices of the seasons, the services of the elements, the tributes
994 10| mindful of humility, of servitude, affectionately jealous
995 12| not say "seven times," or "seventy-seven times?" Who that is contemplating
996 15| is beauteous in either sex, in every time of life.
997 1 | bring a remedy, so that shame for not exhibiting that
998 3 | concealing of Himself in man's shape, imitated nought of man'
999 4 | probity and right feeling shaping their conduct suitably to
1000 3 | lamb under the power of the shearer,")He to whom, had He willed