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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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but to excuse the faults of others, and so take off the edge of our Passion and Displeasure, and preserve the Meekness and Quietness of our Spirits.
[2.] That it is incident to our selves among the rest to offend. The Apostle there puts himself into the number, We all offend. We offend God; if we say,1 we do not, we deceive our selves, and yet he bears with us from day to day, and is not extreme to mark what we do amiss; tho' our Debts to him are Talents, our Brethren's to us but Pence. Think then, if God should be as angry with me for every Provocation, as I am with those about me, what would become of me? They are careless in their observance, and perhaps wilful in their offence, and am not I so to God? yea, am not I a thousand times worse? Job qualified himself with this, when his Servants were provoking, and he was tempted to be harsh with them, What then shall I do, when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Job 31. 13, 14.
[2.] That it is incident to our selves among the rest to offend. The Apostle there puts himself into the number, We all offend. We offend God; if we say,1 we do not, we deceive our selves, and yet he bears with us from day to day, and is not extream to mark what we do amiss; tho' our Debts to him are Talents, our Brethren's to us but Pence. Think then, if God should be as angry with me for every Provocation, as I am with those about me, what would become of me? They are carless in their observance, and perhaps wilful in their offence, and am not I so to God? yea, am not I a thousand times worse? Iob qualified himself with this, when his Servants were provoking, and he was tempted to be harsh with them, What then shall I do, when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Job 31. 13, 14.