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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.
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 that in which, more than in any other, he excell'd. 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.
- 1Josephus Antiq. l. 4. c. 8. gives this character of M•ses, Affectus it• semper in p•testate habuit, ut omnino illis carere videretur, et nomina tantum eorum ex his quae in aliis hominibus conspiceret, cognita habere.Iosephus Antiq. l. 4. c. 8. gives this character of M•ses, Affectus it• semper in p•testate habuit, ut omnino illis carere videretur, et nomina tantum eorum ex his quae in aliis hominibus conspiceret, cognita habere.
This Character of him comes in there in a Parenthesis, (probably inserted by the same inspired Pen, that wrote the last Chapter of Deuteronomy) upon occasion of an Affront he received from those of his own House; which intimates, that his quiet and patient bearing of that, was, of all other, the greatest Proof and Instance of his Meekness. Those can bear any Provocation, that can bear it from their near Relations. The Meekness of Moses, as the Patience of Job, was tried on all hands. Armour of Proof shall be sure to be shot at. It should seem that his Wife was none of the best humoured Women; for what a Passion was she in, about the circumcising of her Son, when she reproached him as a bloody Husband, and we do not read of one word that he replied, but let her have her saying,