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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
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SECT. II.
Some Scripture Patterns of Meekness and Quietness of Spirit.
Good Examples help very much to illustrate and enforce good Rules, bringing them closer to particular Cases, and showing them to be practicable. Precedents are of great use in the Law. If we would be found walking in the same Spirit, and walking in the same Steps, with those that are gone before us to Glory, this is the Spirit we must be acted by, and these are the Steps we must walk in: This is the Way of good Men for wise Men to walk in. Let us go forth then by the Footsteps of the Flock, and set our selves to follow them, who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises. We are compassed about with a great Cloud of Witnesses, that will bear their Testimony to the Comfort of Meekness, and upon trial recommend it to us; but we shall single out only some few out of the Scripture.
Good Examples help very much to illustrate and enforce good Rules, bringing them closer to particular Cases, and shewing them to be practicable. Precedents are of great use in the Law. If we would be found walking in the same Spirit, and walking in the same Steps, with those that are gone before us to Glory, this is the Spirit we must be acted by, and these are the Steps we must walk in: This is the Way of good Men for wise Men to walk in. Let us go forth then by the Footsteps of the Flock, and set our selves to follow them, who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises. We are compassed about with a great Cloud of Witnesses, that will bear their Testimony to the Comfort of Meekness, and upon trial recommend it to us; but we shall single out only some few out of the Scripture.