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

yet his Mind was so very quiet and undisturbed, that at that time he penned the 34th Psalm, in which not only the excellency of the Matter, and the calmness of the Expression, but the composure of it Alphabetically (in the Hebrew) speaks him to be even then in a sedate frame, and to have very much the command of his own Thoughts. As at another time, when his own Followers spake of stoning him, tho' he could not still the Tumult of his Troops, he could those of his Spirits, for then he encouraged himself in the Lord his God, 1 Sam. 30. 6. As to those Prayers against his Enemies, which we find in some of his Psalms, and which sometimes sound a little harsh, surely they did not proceed from any such irregular Passion, as did in the least clash even with the Evangelical Laws of Meekness: We cannot imagine, that one who was so piously calm in his common Conversation, should be sinfully hot in his Devotion; Nor are they to be looked upon as the private Expressions of his own angry Resentments, but as inspired Predictions of God's Judgments upon the Public and Obstinate Enemies of Christ and his Kingdom, as appears by comparing Ps. 69. 22, 23. with Ro. 11. 9, 10. and Psa. 109. 8. with Act. 1. 20. Nor are they any more opposite to the Spirit of the Gospel, than the cries of the Souls under the Altar, Rev. 6. 10. or the Triumphs of Heaven and Earth in the destruction of Babylon, Rev. 19. 1, 2.

yet his Mind was so very quiet and undisturbed, that at that time he penn'd the 34th Psalm, in which not only the excellency of the Matter, and the calmness of the Expression, but the composure of it Alphabetically (in the Hebrew) speaks him to be even then in a sedate frame, and to have very much the command of his own Thoughts. As at another time, when his own Followers spake of stoning him, tho' he could not still the Tumult of his Troops, he could those of his Spirits, for then he encouraged himself in the Lord his God,