When faith by patience doth mortify turbulent passions that still arise, and are opposites thereto. And as love, when perfect, casts out fear, 1 John iv. 18, so then patience is perfect when it expels those contrary passions; or else likewise, too intense thoughts, or porings upon our misery and crosses, so as our minds are chained and tied to those objects, and taken off from all other. I take thoughts in, because Christ says, Luke 24:38, 'Why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Why are you troubled?' For when troubles sink deep, they send thoughts up fast;