If thou hast trusting faith, it is to teach thee patient faith. And yet the Spirit of God declares there is nothing but love in it, and by believing thou wilt certainly find it. May every trial of thy faith establish it, and thereby bring forth. He first enables His afflicted children to believe what He has said of His love in afflicting them, and then to wait for the experience of His love under their afflictions. This waiting quietly, without giving way to sense or unbelief, is patience.
Faith is tried, and stands the trial.
Tribulation comes, faith is exercised with it, but holds fast its confidence in the word of God, and thereby has full proof of the faithfulness of God. True, but grace can. To endure is the proper work of patience. It endures by trusting to the word of God, and by receiving from Him the promised strength. He would have them to be accustomed to the cross, it being the only way to the crown.