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A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon…
A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon on Acts 28. 22, showing that the Christian religion is not a sect, and yet that it is every where spoken against / by Matthew Henry ...A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon on Acts 28. 22, shewing that the Christian religion is not a sect, and yet that it is every where spoken against / by Matthew Henry ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
A Discourse concerning MEEKNESS. › Chapter 2: The Excellency of Meekness and Quietness of Spirit.
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[4.] Consider what a Preparative it is for something further. It is a very desirable thing to stand complete in all the Will of God, Col. 4. 12. to be fitted and furnished for every good Work, to be made ready, a people prepared for the Lord: A living Principle of Grace is the best Preparation for the whole Will of God. Grace is establishing to the Heart, it is the Root of the Matter, and a good Foundation for the time to come. This Grace of Meekness is particularly a good Preparation, for what lies before us in this World.
[4.] Consider what a Preparative it is for something further. It is a very desirable thing to stand compleat in all the Will of God, Col. 4. 12. to be fitted and furnished for every good Work, to be made ready, a people prepared for the Lord: A living Principle of Grace is the best Preparation for the whole Will of God. Grace is establishing to the Heart, it is the Root of the Matter, and a good Foundation for the time to come. This Grace of Meekness is particularly a good Preparation, for what lies before us in this World.
1. It makes us fit for any Duty. It puts the Soul in Frame, and keeps it so for all Religious Exercises. There was no noise of Axes and Hammers in the building of the Temple: Those are most fit for Temple-service that are most quiet and composed. The Work of God is best done, when it is done without noise. Meekness qualities and disposes us to hear and receive the Word: When Malice and Envy are laid aside, and we are like new-born Babes, for Innocency and Inoffensiveness, then we are most fit to receive the sincere Milk of the Word, and are most likely to grow thereby, 1 Pet. 2. 1, 2. Meekness prepares the Soil of the Heart, for the Seed of the Word, as the Husbandman opens and breaks the Clods of his Ground, and makes plain the face thereof, and then casts in the principal Wheat, and the appointed Barley,