“Meditate often on the patience of God.
The devil labours for nothing more than to deface in us the consideration and memory of this perfection.
He is an envious creature, and since it hath reached out itself to us, and not to him, he envies God the glory of it, and man the advantage of it.
But God loves to have the volumes of it studied, and daily turned over by us.
We cannot without an inexcusable willfulness miss the thoughts of it, since it is visible in every bit of bread, and breath of air in ourselves, and all about us.”
–Stephen Charnock, “A Discourse on God’s Patience,” The Works of Stephen Charnock, Volume 2 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1865/2010), 2: 538.
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