now you are tried; for the end and issue of them is a crown of glory, which these do work, as 2 Cor. 4:17, ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’ I begin with the first, what ground there is in this life to cause us to rejoice in such temptations. This, in the 3d and 4th verses, ‘Knowing’—that is, deeply considering and weighing this principle of our Christian profession—‘that the trying of your faith works patience.’