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CHAP. VI. Perfect Patience defined; imperfect con∣solated, and directed.
NOw I have set up to you, Pati∣ence, as a kind of brazen serpent, to cure all the stingings you are expo∣sed unto, I must desire you to under∣stand cleerly the integrall constitution of this virtue; for I ascribe so much efficacie to it, supposing the Patience I handle, to be an habit, or disposition in herent in our wills, which receiveth humbly, and beareth uncomplaining∣ly, all sorts of temporall grievances and passions, in order to a conformity to the will of God, and our similitude to Jesus Christ: or as S. Augustine saith, True Patience ordaineth us to indure all kinds of evills of paine, to avoid all manner of ills of guilt. These definitions doe not admit either a lame, or a pyde Pa∣tience, to enter into this high forme of