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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Promise annexed is very encouraging to the meek of the Earth, that seek Meekness; It may be you shall be hid in the day of the Lord's Anger. Tho' it be but a Promise with an [it may be,] yet it ministers abundance of Comfort: God's Probabilities, are better than the Worlds Certainties: And the meek ones of the Earth, that hope in his Mercy, and can venture their All upon an intimation of his Good-will, shall find to their comfort, that when God brings a Flood upon the World of the Ungodly, he hath an Ark for all his Noahs, his resting quiet People, in which they shall be hid, it may be from the Calamity it ⟨p. 90⟩self, however from the sting and malignity of it, hid (as Luther said) either in Heaven or under Heaven, either in the Possession, or under the Protection of Heaven. See Psal. 91. 1, 2.
The Promise annexed is very encouraging to the meek of the Earth, that seek Meekess; It may be you shall be hid in the day of the Lord's Anger. Tho' it be but a Promise with an [it may be,] yet it ministers abundance of Comfort: God's Probabilities, are better than the Worlds Certainties: And the meek ones of the Earth, that hope in his Mercy, and can venture their All upon an intimation of his Good-will, shall find to their comfort, that when God brings a Flood upon the World of the Ungodly, he hath an Ark for all his Noahs, his resting quiet People, in which they shall be hid, it may be from the C•lamity it ⟨p. 90⟩self, however from the sting and malignity of it, hid (as Luther said) either in Heaven or under Heaven, either in the Possession, or under the Protection of Heaven. See Psal. 91. 1, 2.