Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep…

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck, and drown himself; first, in the cares and sorrows of this world; and, then, in perdition.

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Ezekiel Hopkins Death disarmed of it Sting Of Patience under Afflictions

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