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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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4. Learn to pause. It is a good Rule, as in our Communion with God, so in our Converse with Men, Eccl. 5. 2. Be not rash with thy Mouth, and let not thine Heart be hasty to utter any thing. When we are at any time provoked, Delays may be as advantageous, as in other cases they are dangerous. The discretion of a Man deferreth his Anger, Prov. 19. 11. I would beat thee, *(said Socrates to ⟨p. 146⟩his Servant) if I were not angry; but he that is hasty of Spirit, that joins in with his Anger upon the first rise of it, exalteth folly, Pro. 14. 29. The Office of Reason is to govern the Passions, but then we must give it time to act, and not suffer the Tongue to over-run• it: Some have advised, when we are provoked to anger, to take at least so much time to deliberate, as while we repeat the Alphabet; and others have thought it more proper to repeat the Lords Payer, and perhaps by that time we are past the fifth Petition, [Forgive us our Trespasses, as we forgive them that Trespass against us] we may be reduced into Temper. It is a good Rule, To think twice before we speak once; for he that hasteth with his Feet sinneth. It was the noted saying of a great Statesman in Q. Elizabeth's Court, Take time and we shall have done the sooner. 2Nor can there be any thing lost by deferring our Anger; for there is nothing said or done in our Wrath, but it might be better said and better done in Meekness.
4. Learn to pause. It is a good Rule, as in our Communion with God, so in our Converse with Men, Eccl. 5. 2. Be not rash with thy Mouth, and let not thine Heart be hasty to utter any thing. When we are at any time provok'd, Delays may be as advantagious, as in other cases they are dangerous. The discretion of a Man deferreth his Anger,