Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things, death ...

34 PREPARATIONElies patience.i.Sam.3.18.Lcvit, 10.3.in peeces the heart ofmany a gracelcffe King! Andyet Davf^ by the helpe of this holy vertue, pafTcdon along patiently without woundjOrpalTion.That heavy newes which was fo horrible, thatit made both theeares ofevery one that heard it,tingle, brought by Samuel to £// immediatelyfrom Gods ownc mouth, might have mademany an carth-worme to have run mad with thevery fore-thought of fo much mifery to comeBut good old patient Eli;whcn he had heard it all,fweetly ejaculates :vphatfeemeth him good.It u the Lo kd: Let htm docThe taking away of two fonncs at once by afudden and violent death, with vifible vengeancefrom heaven, and in the middeft ofamofthorrible finne, is naturally matter of forrowwhich cannot be expreft, and extreme/!: griefcyet KyiAYon in fuch a cafe having learned conformityof his ownc will to the divine pleafure oftheoncly wife Go d ; when il/^y^-^ told him that theLord VDOuld he fantfifed in them that come nighJmpatkncyworfetkenany(rofe.Bimy and before all the people He vpould hee glorifed -^Aaron held his feace. SoHe held his peace : K^ndquieting hisfo.heart becaufe God would have itSee further for this purpofe, 2.Sam,^.i'^yi6,jfa.S9'^'^c.By thefc few precedents you may eafily perceivewhat fingular and foveraigne powerpatiencehath to pull the fting, and extrad the poyfonout of the moft grievous calamities and grcatcfttroubles.But now on the contrary :Impatiency andunpleafcdneile