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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 3: The Application.
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We are called Christians, and it is our Privilege and Honour that we are so: We name the Name of the meek and lowly Jesus, but ⟨p. 78⟩how few are acted by his Spirit, or conformed to his Example? It is a shame that any occasion should be given to charge it upon Professors, who in other things are most strict and sober, that in this they are most faulty; And that many who pretend to Conscience and Devotion should indulge themselves in a peevish, froward and morose Temper and Conversation, to the great reproach of that worthy Name by which we are called. May we not say, as that Mahometan did when a Christian Prince had perfidiously broke his League with him, O Jesus, are these thy Christians?
We are called Christians, and it is our Priviledge and Honour that we are so: We name the Name of the meek and lowly Jesus, but ⟨p. 78⟩how few are acted by his Spirit, or conform'd to his Example? It is a shame that any occasion should be given to charge it upon Professors, who in other things are most strict and sober, that in this they are most faulty; And that many who pretend to Conscience and Devotion should indulge themselves in a peevish, froward and morose Temper and Conversation, to the great reproach of that worthy Name by which we are called. May we not say, as that Mahometan did when a Christian Prince had per•idiously broke his League with him, O Iesus, are these thy Christians?
It is the manifest Design of our Holy and Excellent Religion to smooth, and soften, and sweeten our Tempers, and to work off the ruggedness and unevenness of them; is it not a wretched thing therefore, that any who profess it, should be soured, and embittered, and less conversable and fit for humane Society, than other People? He was looked upon as a very good Man in his Day, and not without Cause, who yet had such an unhappy temper, and was sometimes so transported with Passion, that his Friend would say of him, He had Grace enough for ten Men, and yet not enough for himself. All the Disciples of Jesus Christ, even those of the first three, do not know what manner of Spirit they are of,