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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.
It may be of use also for the qualifying of our Anger at our Inferiors, to remember not only our former sinfulness against God in our Unconverted State, but our former Infirmities in the Age and State of Inferiors; were not we our selves sometimes foolish? Our Children are careless, and playful, and froward, and scarce governable, and were not we our selves so when we were of their Age? And if we have now put away childish Things, yet they have not.—, Children may be brought up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord, without being provoked to wrath.
5. We must study to be quiet, 1 Thes. 4. 11. that is, study not to disturb others, nor to be your selves disturbed by others; those are quiet that are not apt either to give or take offence, [Greek or Hebrew], be ambitious of this, as the greatest Honour, to be quiet: So the word signifies. The most of Men are ambitious of the Honour of great Business, and Power, and Preferment; they Covet it, they Court it, they compass Sea and Land to obtain it; but the ambition of a Christian should be carried out towards Quietness, we should reckon that the happiest Post, and desire it accordingly, which lies most out of the Road of Provocation. I cannot avoid mentioning, for the illustration of this, that most excellent Poem of my Lord Hale, (the Sense of which is borrowed from a Heathen.)
5. We must study to be quiet, 1 Thes. 4. 11. that is, study not to disturb others, nor to be your selves disturbed by others; those are quiet that are not apt either to give or take offence, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, be ambitious of this, as the greatest Honour, to be quiet: So the word signifies. The most of Men are ambitious of the Honour of great Business, and Power, and Preferment; they Covet it, they Court it, they compass Sea and Land to obtain it; but the ambition of a Christian should be carryed out towards Quietness, we should reckon that the happiest Post, and desire it accordingly, which lies most out of the Road of Provocation. I cannot avoid mentioning, for the illustration of this, that most excellent Poem of my Lord Hale, (the Sense of which is borrowed from a Heathen.)