A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon…

he durst look God in the Face amidst all the Terrors of Mount Sinai, and draw near to the thick Darkness where God was, and yet that Spirit which made and knew his Heart, saith, He was the Meekest, Mildest Man upon the Earth. Mildness and Fortitude may well lodge together in the same Breast, which corrects the Mistake of those that will allow none Valiant but the Fierce.

The Meekness of Moses qualified him to be a Magistrate, especially to be King in Jeshurun, among a People so very provoking, that they gave him occasion to use all the Meekness he had, and all little enough to bear their Manners in the Wilderness. When they murmured against him, quarrelled with him, arraigned his Authority, and were sometimes ready to stone him; he resented these Provocations with very little of personal Application or Concern, but instead of using his Interest in Heaven, to summon Plagues upon them, he made it his Business to stand in the Gap, and by his Intercession for them, to ⟨p. 102⟩turn away the Wrath of God from them, and this not once nor twice, but many times.

The Meekness of Moses qualified him to be a Magistrate, especially to be King in Ieshurun, among a People so very provoking, that they gave him occasion to use all the Meekness he had, and all little enough to bear their Manners in the Wilderness. When they murmured against him, quarrel'd with him, arraigned his Authority, and were sometimes ready to stone him; he resented these Provocations with very little of personal Application or Concern, but instead of using his Interest in Heaven, to summon Plagues upon them, he made it his Business to stand in the Gap, and by his Intercession for them, to ⟨p. 102⟩turn away the Wrath of God from them, and this not once nor twice, but many times.