A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon…

Some Scripture Precepts of Meekness.

If we lay the Word of God before us for our Rule, and will be ruled by it, we shall find the command of God making Meekness and Quietness to be as much our Duty, as it is our Ornament. We are there told it as the Will of God;

If we lay the Word of God before us for our Rule, and will be rul'd by it, we shall find the command of God making Meekness and Quietness to be as much our Duty, as it is our Ornament. We are there told it as the Will of God;

1. That we must seek Meekness. This Command we have, Zeph. 2. 3. and (which is especially observable) it is directed to the Meek of the Earth: Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the Earth:—Seek Meekness. Tho' they were Meek, and were pronounced so by him that searcheth the heart, yet they must seek Meekness, which teacheth us, That those who have much of this Grace,¹ have still need of more, and must desire and endeavour after more; Si dixisti, sufficit, periisti. He that sits down content with the Grace he hath, and is not pressing forwards towards Perfection, and striving to grow in Grace, to get the Habits of it more strengthened and confirmed, and the Actings of it more quickened and invigorated, it is to be feared hath no true Grace at all; but tho' he sit never so high, and never so easy in his own opinion, yet sits down short of Heaven. Where there's Life, one way or other there will be Growth, till we come to the perfect Man. Job 17. 9. He that hath clean hands will be stronger and stronger. Paul was a Man of great attainments in Grace, and yet we find him forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth to those that are before, Phi. 3. 13, 14. Those who took joyfully the spoiling of their