Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 5:3

3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also , knowing that tribulation worketh patience .

As old Souldiers do in their scars of Honour. vid. Gal. 6.17. 2 Cor. 12.9, 10, 11. Believers don't only glory in their future happiness, but in their present sufferings & afflictions. Yet not so much in affliction it self, as in the issue and fruitful effects thereof, of which he speaks in what follows.

Finding by experience.

Not as if affliction of its self and its own nature did this, for in many it hath a contrary operation; but God who is the Author and giver of patience, Rom. 15.3. doth make use of it for this purpose; it is a means sanctified of God for the exercising, obtaining and increasing thereof.

Marginal references: Jam. 1.3.; Or worketh out.