Diuers consolations that the life and time of affliction is short.
1
The cōfort that doth make vs bould,
is our afflictions transitory:
Cause wee of Christ doe take sure hould,
the troubles short, endlesse the glory.
2
Eye hath not seen, eare hath not heard,
the ioyes that God for his elect:
In heauen already hath prepar'd,
through many troubles to effect.
3
Light are our troubles temporarie,
because Christ and his spirit deuine:
This weight and burthen helpe to carry,
and strongly vs to them combine.
4
We looke not on things seene & vaine,
but on things vnseene cast our eye:
The soules of Saints for Christ was slaine,
Christ answeared, when they did cry.
5
How long a time that they must stay,
a little while though he doth lower:
His stay till wrath be ouer past,
t'is but a minute of an howre.
6
Christ calls the time of troubles little,
but Paule doth say, the glories great:
As in respect of th'earth a little,
so griefes compar'd, to Heauens seate.
7
A while saith God, I thee forsooke,
that is short time in misery:
But there th'eternall mercy tooke,
that is to heauen felicity.
FINIS.
