Grant me patience, Lord, at this time also.
Help me, my God, and then I will not fear, how grievously soever I be afflicted.
2. And now, in these my troubles, what shall I say? Lord, thy will be done, I have deserved to be afflicted.
Surely I ought to bear it; and O that I could bear it with patience, until the tempest be passed over!
But thy hand is able to take even this temptation from me, and to assuage the violence thereof, that I utterly sink not under it, as often heretofore thou hast done unto me, O my God, my merciful God.
And the more hard it is to me, the more easy is this change to the right hand of the Most High.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Of craving the divine aid, and confidence of recovering grace.
Christ.SON, I am the Lord, that giveth strength in the day of tribulation.