VERSE 37.
HEre is a remedy against impatiencie taken from the shortnes of the time wherein we are to suffer. Thou callest for pa∣tience: thou wouldest have us to be patient in our afflictions: but how long shall we continue in them? To that he answers parvum quàm quàm: the ingemination of the word, augmenteth the signi∣fication of it: as Toboth, Toboth. Raagnoth, Raagnoth, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Hee, that is, the Lord Iesus Christ,* 1.1 and deliver you out of all your miseries.
I: he will come, but it may be long first? Nay, he will make no tarrying.
If wee bee in any kinde of affliction, wee thinke the time long, though it be never so short. As the Saints in the Apoc. 6.10. cry, how long, Lord? So if wee be sicke, we say, how long Lord? how long will it be ere this sicknesse be removed from me? how long shall we endure the taunts of the wicked? how long shall Christians in some Countries suffer banishment, imprisonment, losse of goods? how long shall the Devill and his instruments tyrannize over them? but a very little while, even the turning of an hand, the twinckling of an eye, in respect of eternity? What is tenne or twenty yeeres cala∣mity, if it should be so long? What is thirtie eight or fortie yeeres, as Ioh. 5. a man was so long diseased in his feete? what is this to life everlasting? who would not fight a while, that he might have the victorie? who would not take physike a while,* 1.2 that he might be whole? our light affliction, which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a farre most excellent and an eternall waight of glory. Therefore let the shortnesse of our suffering comfort us: hee that should come, will come in his due and convenient time.