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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.
It will be worth while to observe,
1. Who they were that said this, they were ⟨p. 2⟩the chief of the Jews that were at Rome, ver. 17. The Jews were looked upon (at least they looked upon themselves) as a very knowing People; The Jews at Rome; a place of Learning and Enquiry, thought themselves more knowing than the other Jews; St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, chap. 17. 2.—20. takes notice of it: Thou art called a […] and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his Will,—and art confident that thou thy self art a Guide of the Blind, a Light of them which are in Darkness, &c. And we have reason to suppose that the Chief of the Jews there who had the greatest Advantages of Education and Correspondence, were the most intelligent: It might also be justly expected that upon the first notices of the Gospel, the Jews should have been of all People most ready to acquaint themselves with a Religion which was so much the Honour and Perfection of their own: And yet it seems, the Jews, the chief of the Jews at Rome knew no more of Christianity but this, that it was a Sect every where spoken against. This we know, (said they) and it was all they knew concerning it.
1. Who they were that said this, they were ⟨p. 2⟩the chief of the Iews that were at Rome, ver. 17. The Iews were look'd upon (at least they look'd upon themselves) as a very knowing People; The Iews at Rome; a place of Learning and Enquiry, thought themselves more knowing than the other Jews; St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, chap. 17. 2.—20. takes notice of it: Thou art called a 〈…〉 and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his Will,—and art confident that thou thy self art a Guide of the Blind, a Light of them which are in Darkness, &c. And we have reason to suppose that the Chief of the Jews there who had the greatest Advantages of Education and Correspondence, were the most intelligent: It might also be justly expected that upon the first notices of the Gospel, the Iews should have been of all People most ready to acquaint themselves with a Religion which was so much the Honour and Perfection of their own: And yet it seems, the Iews, the chief of the Jews at Rome knew no more of Christianity but this, that it was a Sect every where spoken against. This we know, (said they) and it was all they knew concerning it.