Thou wouldst now enjoy the everlasting habitation; and thy heavenly country, replenished with all joy, now delights thee.
But that hour is not yet come; as yet there is another time, a time of war, a time of labour and trial.
Thou desirest to be filled with the supreme good, but thou canst not attain it for the present.
I am the supreme good: patiently wait for me, until the kingdom of God come.
3. Now therefore be humbly obedient unto all, and regard not who said or commanded this:
But take great heed, that whether thy superior, inferior, or thine equal, require any thing of thee, or insinuate their desire, thou take it all in good part, and endeavour to fulfil it with a sincere will.
Let one seek this, another that; let him glory in this, the other in that, and be praised a thousand times; but do thou neither rejoice in this, nor in that, but in the contempt of thyself, and in my good pleasure and honour alone.
This art thou to wish, that whether it be by thy life or by thy death, God may be always glorified in thee.