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

It is observable, When the meek of the Earth, are especially concerned to seek Meekness, even then when the Decree is ready to bring forth, v. 2. when the day of the Lord's Anger hastens on, when the Times are bad, and desolating Judgments are breaking in, then we have occasion for all the Meekness we have, and all we can get, and all little enough. Meekness towards God, the Author, and towards Men, the Instruments of our Trouble: Meekness to bear the Trial, and to bear our Testimony in the Trial. There is sometimes an Hour of Temptation, Rev. 3. 10. a Critical Day, when the exercise of Meekness is the Work of the Day; Sometimes the Children of Men are more than ordinary provoking, and then the Children of God have more than ordinary need of Meekness. When God is justly angry, and Men are unjustly angry, when our Mothers Children are angry with us, and our Father angry too, there's anger enough stirring, and then, Blessed are the Meek, that are careful to keep possession of their Souls, when they can keep possession of nothing else; whose Hearts are fixed, and quiet in shaking and unquiet Times.

It is observable, When the meek of the Earth, are especially concern'd to seek Meekness, even then when the Decree is ready to bring forth, v. 2. when the day of the Lord's Anger hastens on, when the Times are bad, and desolating Judgments are breaking in, then we have occasion for all the Meekness we have, and all we can get, and all little enough. Meekness towards God, the Author, and towards Men, the Instruments of our Trouble: Meekness to bear the Trial, and to bear our Testimony in the Trial. There is sometimes an Hour of Temptation, Rev. 3. 10. a Critical Day, when the exercise of Meekness is the Work of the Day; Sometimes the Children of Men are more than ordinary provoking, and then the Children of God have more than ordinary need of Meekness. When God is justly angry, and Men are unjustly angry, when our Mothers Children are angry with us, and our Father angry too, there's anger enough stirring, and then, Blessed are the Meek, that are careful to keep possession of their Souls, when they can keep possession of nothing else; whose Hearts are fixed, and quiet in shaking and unquiet Times.