# “Meditate often on the patience of God” by Stephen Charnock

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“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](https://www.amazon.com/dp/184871100X?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
[_The Works of Stephen Charnock, Volume 2_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/184871100X?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1865/2010), 2: 538.

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