ed, the utmost that human rage and fury could invent,
with what [3803]patience they have borne, with what willingness embraced
it. "Though he kill me," saith Job, "I will trust in him." _Justus
[3804]inexpugnabilis_, as Chrysostom holds, a just man is impregnable, and
not to be overcome. The gout may hurt his hands, lameness his feet,
convulsions may torture his joints, but not _rectam mentem_ his soul is
free.

[3805] ------"nempe pecus, rem,
Lectos, argentum tollas licet; in manicis, et
Compedibus saevo teneas custode"------

"Perhaps, you mean,
My cattle, money, movables or land,
Then take them all.--But, slave, if I command,
A cruel jailor shall thy freedom seize."

[3806]"Take away his money, his treasure is in heaven: banish him his
country, he is an inhabitant of that heavenly Jerusalem: cast him into
bands, his conscience is free; kill his body, it shall rise again; he
fights with a shadow that contends with an upright man:" he will not be
moved.

------"si fractus illabatur orbis,
Impavidum ferient ruinae."

Though heaven itself should fall on his head, he will not be offended. He
is impenetrable, as an anvil hard, as constant as Job.

[3807] "Ipse deus simul atque volet me solvet opinor."

"A God shall set me free whene'er I please."

Be thou such a one; let thy misery be what it will, what it can, with
patience endure it; thou mayst be restored as he was. _Terris proscriptus,
ad coelum propera; ab hominibus desertus, ad deum fuge_. "The poor shall
not always be forgotten, the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish
for ever," Psal. x. 18. ver. 9. "The Lord will be a refuge of the
oppressed, and a defence in the time of trouble."

"Servus Epictetus, multilati corporis, Irus
Pauper: at haec inter charus erat superis."

"Lame was Epictetus, and poor Irus,
Yet to them both God was propitious."

Lodovicus Vertomannus, that famous traveller, endured much misery, yet
surely, saith Scaliger, he was _vir deo charus_, in that he did escape so
many dangers, "God especially protected him, he was dear unto him:" _Modo
in egestate, tribulatione, convalle deplorationis_, &c. "Thou art now in
the vale of misery, in poverty, in agony," [3808]"in temptation; rest,
eternity, happiness, immortality, shall be thy reward," as Chrysostom
pleads, "if thou trust in God, and keep thine innocency." _Non si male
nunc