The Pilgrimes New-yeares-Gift or, Fourteene Steps to the Throne of Glory. By the 7. Corporeall and 7. Spirituall Acts of Charitie, and those made Parallels. By Ralph Crane |
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Canto 5.
MERCIE expresseth here:
the pilgrime here sets downe
How those that wrongs with Patience beare
gain an eternal crown
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giue to Those a harbour that haue none
the pilgrime here sets downe
How those that wrongs with Patience beare
gain an eternal crown
Was a worke Corporeall in the fifth place showne,
As Patience now in this Spirituall forme
Which hath a welcome for wrongs sharpest storm
And to giue Iniuries house-roome is no more
Then to Lodge Enemies, distress'd, and poore;
which makes our Acts, the nobler in their course:
And puts our Euills to the weaker force:
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“So Iniuries indur'd, their Stings are gone:
That God, which last of Comfort held the name
Is here the God of Patience; both the same;
By his Long-suffering, Penitence works our Peace;
And by our Patience we our Soules possesse:
Our Patience hauing a Possession then,
Who should lodge there, but Iniuries of men?
That place to Euills properly belongs
“The house of Patience is the Inn of Wrongs:
The holy Prophets are before vs plac'd
As precedents of Patience: but most grac'd
By Christ, and his Endurings: witnesse Scornes,
Reproaches, Spight, Blasphemy, Buffets, Thornes,
Last, his most Pretious Suffering, that excells,
And hath raisd Patience, boue all Vertues else:
And for the Thorny-crowne, prickt it with Starrs,
Shining through Corporeall, or Spirituall Warrs:
Who would not beare wrongs since i'th end they proue
All Iewells, set about their Crowne aboue?
Without the next, impossible he should liue,
He that beares Wrongs, will graciously forgiue.
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