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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.
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.)
Let him that will ascend the tottering Seat
Let him that will ascend the toterring Seat