John Trapp on James 5:7

Verſe 7. Be patient therefore] q. d. You poor oppreſſed ones, hold out faith and patience. You ſhall ſhortly have help As the mothers breſts ake to be ſuckling, ſo doth Gods heart yern to be helping.

Ʋnto the coming of the Lord] ſc. By particular deliverance: and not only by the generall judgement. Let patience have line and rope.

Waiteth for the precious fruit] Being in novum annum ſemper dives, as the proverb is, ever rich againſt the next year. Spes alit agricolas. Hope holds up the husbandmans heart.

And hath long patience] He looks not to ſow and reap in a day, as the Hyperboreans are ſaid to do, that ſow ſhortly after the Sunne-riſing with them, and reap̄, Heresbach. de re [illegible: 1 letter]uſtic. before the Sun ſet: becauſe the whole half year is one continuate day with them.