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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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5. It makes us fit for Death and Eternity. The Grave is a quiet place, there the wicked cease from troubling, Job 3. 17. Those that were most troublesome are there bound to the Peace; and their Hatred and Envy (those great make-bates) ⟨p. 75⟩are there perished, Eccles. 9. 6. Whether we will or no, in the Grave we shall lye still and be quiet, Job 3. 13. What a great Change them must it needs be to unquiet, angry and litigious People, and what a mighty shock will that sudden forced Rest give them after such a violent rapid Motion! It is therefore our Wisdom to compose our selves for the Grave, to prepare our selves for it, by Adapting and Accommodating our selves to that which is likely to be our long Home; this is dying daily; quieting our selves, for Death will shortly quiet us.
5. It makes us fit for Death and Eternity. The Grave is a quiet place, there the wicked cease from troubling, Job 3. 17. Those that were most troublesom are there bound to the Peace; and their Hatred and Envy (those great make-bates) ⟨p. 75⟩are there perished, Eccles. 9. 6. Whether we will or no, in the Grave we shall lye still and be quiet, Job 3. 13. What a great Change them must it needs be to unquiet, angry and litigious People, and what a mighty shock will that sudden forced Rest give them after such a violent rapid Motion! It is therefore our Wisdom to compose our selves for the Grave, to prepare our selves for it, by Adapting and Accommodating our selves to that which is likely to be our long Home; this is dying daily; quieting our selves, for Death will shortly quiet us.