2Cor. 12 Ver. 12. In all patience.
A grace to be gloried in; Job is crowned and chronicled for it.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. (2Cor. 11:11)
It should be a minister’s care to preserve in the hearts of his people an opinion of his love to them. For if they once conceive an incurable prejudice against him, that he hates them, or the like, there is no good will be done.
Cicero could say,
Two things I have to bear me bold upon, the knowledge of good arts and the glory of great acts
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