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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.
Such and such occasions there are, which they that are disposed to it, might quarrel about, but what is that between me and thee? If Meekness Rule, matters in Variance may be fairly reasoned and adjusted without Violation or Infringement of Friendship. This is the Example of that great Patriarch. The future Happiness of the Saints is represented as the Bosom of Abraham, Luke 16. 23. a quiet State. Those that hope to lye in the Bosom of Abraham shortly, must tread in the steps of Abraham now, whose Children we are, as long as we thus do well, and who (as Maimonides expresseth it) is the Father of all that are gathered under the Wings of the Divine Majesty.
Such and such occasions there are, which they that are disposed to it, might quarrel about, but what is that between me and thee? If Meekness Rule, matters in Variance may be fairly reasoned and adjusted without Violation or Infringment of Friendship. This is the Example of that great Patriarch. The future Happiness of the Saints is represented as the Bosom of Abraham, Luke 16. 23. a quiet State. Those that hope to lye in the Bosom of Abraham shortly, must tread in the steps of Abraham now, whose Children we are, as long as we thus do well, and who (as Maimonides expresseth it) is the Father of all that are gathered under the Wings of the Divine Majesty.
2. Moses was a Pattern of Meekness, it was his Master Grace,1 that in which, more than in any other, he excelled. This Testimony the Holy Ghost gives of him, Numb. 12. 3. That the Man Moses was very meek, above all the Men which were upon the face of the Earth.
2. Moses was a Pattern of Meekness, it was his Master Grace,1