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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. Pray to God by his Spirit to work in you this excellent Grace of Meekness and Quietness of Spirit. It is a part of that Comeliness, which he puts upon the Soul, and he must be sought unto for it. If any Man lack this Meekness of Wisdom, let him ask it of God, who gives liberally, and doth not upbraid us with our Folly. When we begin at any time to be froward and unquiet, we must lift up a Prayer to him that stilleth the Noise of the Sea, for that Grace which establisheth the Heart. When David's Heart was hot within him, the first word that broke out was a Prayer, Psa. 39. 3, 4. When we are surprised by a Provocation, and begin to be ⟨p. 147⟩in a ferment upon it, it will not only be a present Diversion, but a Sovereign Cure to lift up an Ejaculation to God for Grace and Strength to resist and overcome the Temptation: Lord, keep me quiet now! Let your Requests in this matter, be made known to God; and the Peace of God shall keep your Hearts and Minds, Phil. 4. 6, 7. You are ready enough to complain of unquiet People about you; but you have more reason to complain of unquiet Passions within you; the other are but Thorns in the Hedge, these are Thorns in the Flesh, against which, if you beseech the Lord, as Paul did, 2 Cor. 12. 8. with Faith, and Fervency, and Constancy, you shall receive Grace sufficient.
5. Pray to God by his Spirit to work in you this excellent Grace of Meekness and Quietness of Spirit. It is a part of that Comliness, which he puts upon the Soul, and he must be sought unto for it. If any Man lack this Meekness of Wisdom, let him ask it of God, who gives liberally, and doth not upbraid us with our Folly. When we begin at any time to be froward and unquiet, we must lift up a Prayer to him that stilleth the Noise of the Sea, for that Grace which establisheth the Heart. When David's Heart was hot within him, the first word that broke out was a Prayer, Psa. 39. 3, 4. When we are surprized by a Provocation, and begin to be ⟨p. 147⟩