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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.
Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt.1
- 1Virg. Georg. lib. 4.
A little sprinkling of the Dust of the Grave, which we are upon the brink of, would do much towards the quieting of our Spirits, and the taking up of our Quarrels. Death will quiet us shortly, let Grace quiet us now. When David's Heart was hot within him, he prayed, Lord, make me to know my end, Psal. 39. 3, 4.
To conclude: I know no Errand that I can come upon of this kind to you, in which methinks I should be more likely to prevail, than in this; so much doth Meekness conduce to the Comfort and Repose of our own Souls, and the making of our Lives sweet and pleasant to us. If thou be wise herein, thou shalt be wise for thy self. That which I have been so intent upon in this Discourse, is only to persuade you not to be your own Tormentors, but to govern your Passions, so that they may not be furious to your selves. The Ornament I have been recommending to you is confessedly excellent and lovely; will you put it on, and wear it, that by this all Men may know that you are Christ's Disciples, and you may be found among the Sheep, on the right Hand, at the great day,1 when Christs Angels shall gather out of his Kingdom every thing that offends. Every one will give Meekness a good Word, but in this, as in other instances; Probitus laudatur & alget.
To conclude: I know no Errand that I can come upon of this kind to you, in which methinks I should be more likely to prevail, than in this; so much doth Meekness conduce to the Comfort and Repose of our own Souls, and the making of our Lives sweet and pleasant to us. If thou be wise herein, thou shalt be wise for thy self. That which I have been so intent upon in this Discourse, is only to perswade you not to be your own Tormentors, but to govern your Passions, so that they may not be furios to your selves. The Ornament I have been recommending to you is confessedly excellent and lovely; will you put it on, and wear it, that by this all Men may know that you are Christ's Disciples, and you may be found among the Sheep, on the right Hand, at the great day,