but being insolvent, his lord gave orders that he, with his wife, and children, and all that he had, should be sold for payment.

and his fellow-servant fell at his feet, and embraced him, saying, allow me time, and I will pay thee all.

and will not God avenge his own elect, who cry to him night and day? will he delay their cause?

for I know you are fully acquainted with the Jewish customs and controversies: and therefore I beg the indulgence of your attention.

or do you despise the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not considering that the kindness of God invites you to repentance?

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;

being fortified in so effectual a manner, as to sustain your trials with constancy and joy:

be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:

however I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might demonstrate the greatness of his clemency, by making me an eminent instance of it to those who should hereafter believe in him, in order to eternal life.

A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

but imitate the example of those who by faith and patience have obtain'd the inheritance that was promis'd to them.

As for you, my brethren, bear your sufferings with constancy, till the advent of the Lord. the farmer, from the prospect of a golden crop, patiently expects the showers of the spring and the autumn.

let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them.

the Lord does not delay the accomplishment of his promise, as some do imagine. but he waits with patience upon our account, as being unwilling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

that the patience of our Lord is for your advantage: as our dear brother Paul, according to the information he receiv'd, has writ to you,