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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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Wherefore shall he be slain? and the issue of it was ill. Saul was not only impatient ⟨p. 118⟩of the Reproof, but enraged at the Reprover, and cast a Javelin at him, v. 33. Reproofs are then likely to answer the intention, when they manifestly evidence the good will of the Reprover, and are made up of soft Words and hard Arguments. This is to restore with the Spirit of Meekness, and there's a good reason added, considering thy self; ille hodie, ego •ras; those who think they stand fast, know not how soon they may be shaken and overthrown, and therefore we must treat those that are overtaken in a fault, with the same tenderness and compassion that we would wish to find, if it were our own case.
Wherefore shall he be slain? and the issue of it was ill. Saul was not only impatient ⟨p. 118⟩of the Reproof, but enraged at the Reprover, and cast a Iavelin at him, v. 33. Reproofs are then likely to answer the intention, when they manifestly evidence the good will of the Reprover, and are made up of soft Words and hard Arguments. This is to restore with the Spirit of Meekness, and there's a good reason added, considering thy self; ille hodie, ego •ras; those who think they stand fast, know not how soon they may be shaken and overthrown, and therefore we must treat those that are overtaken in a fault, with the same tenderness and compassion that we would wish to find, if it were our own case.
2. We must receive Reproofs with Meekness. If we do that which deserves Rebuke, and we meet with those that are so just and kind to give it us, we must be quiet under it, not quarrelling with the Reprover, nor objecting against the Reproof, nor fretting that we are touched in a sore place, but submit to it, and laying our Souls under the Conviction of it.1