<p>Some Trees, when Men oppresse their Aged Heads,<lb/> (With waighty Stones) they fructifie the more;<lb/> And, when upon some Herbs, the Gard'ner treads,<lb/> They thrive and prosper, better then before:<lb/> So, when the Kings of Aegypt did oppresse<lb/> The Sonnes of Iacob, through their Tyrannies;<lb/> Their Numbers, every day, did more encrease,<lb/> Till they grew greater then their Enemies.<lb/> So, when the Iewes and Gentiles, joyn'd their Powre<lb/> The Lord, and his Annoynted, to withstand;<lb/> (With raging Furie, lab'ring to devoure<lb/> And roote the Gospel, out of ev'ry Land)<lb/> The more they rag'd, conspired, and envy'd,<lb/> The more they slander'd, scorn'd, and murthered;<lb/> The more, the Faithfull, still, were multiply'd:<lb/> And, still, the further, their Profession spred.<lb/> Yea, so it spred, that quite it overthrew<lb/> Ev'n Tyranny it selfe; that, at the last,<lb/> The Patience of the Saints, most pow'rfull grew,<lb/> And Persecutions force, to ground was cast.<lb/> The selfe-same Pow'r, true Patience, yet retaines,<lb/> And (though a thousand Suff'rings wound the same)<lb/> She still hath Hope enough to ease her paynes;<lb/> That Hope, which keepeth off, all Feare and Shame:<lb/> For, 'tis not Hunger, Cold, nor Fire, nor Steele,<lb/> Nor all the Scornes or Slanders, we can heare,<lb/> Nor any Torment, which our Flesh can feele,<lb/> That conquers us; but, our owne Trayt'rous Feare.<lb/> Where, Honest Mindes, and Patient Hearts, are Mates;<lb/> They grow victorious, in their Hardest-Fates.<lb/> </p>

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A large beam on a tree does not stop it from growing

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<p>VICTRIX PATIENTIA DURI.</p>

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<p>No Inward Griefe, nor outward Smart,<lb/> Can overcome a Patient-Heart.</p>

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