Obedient Patience, Chapter 2
CHAP. II.
Arguments and Helps for Patient and Obedient Sufferings in particular instances.
HAving thus far considered of Patience and Impatience in the general, it will be useful to apply some special Remedies to many particular Cases: And first I will name the several Cases, which I mean to speak to: And they are
I. Gods afflicting hand upon our Flesh, in Pains and Sickness.
II. The Sentence of Death.
III. Loss of Goods and Estate, and suffering Poverty and want.
IV. The Sickness and death of Friends.
V. Unfaithfulness of Freinds.
VI. Persecution by wicked men and Enemies.
VII. Dishonour and loss of reputation, even to scorn.
VIII. The unrighteousness of Rulers, and the wrath of powerful Men.
IX The Treachery, and abuse of Servants, and hearers, and other inferiours.
X. Great and strong Temptations of Satan, &c.
XI. Trouble of Conscience, and doubts of pardon and Salvation.
XII. To lose the preaching of the Gospel, and other ordinary means of Grace.
XIII. When God seemeth to deny our Prayers, and not to bless his Word and Mercies to us.
XIV. When all our duties and lawful endeavours seem frustrated by God.
XV. The great weakness of our Faith, Hope, Love, and other Graces.
XVI. The Misery of the Uuconverted World, which lyeth in ignorance and wickedness.
XVII. The great weakness, scandals, and divisions of Christians: The great and manifold troubles of the Church.
XVIII. The Triumphs of Sin and Wickedness.
XIX. Publick and National sins, plagues, and miseries, especially by war.
XX. The uncertainty of deliverance here, and the fewness of those that shall be saved at last, and the delay of our Salvation. Each of these require some special helps for Patience, besides the Common Helps.