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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.
2. Let us not be deterred from serious Godliness, or any of the Instances of it, by the invidious Name of a Sect, which is put upon it. If a […] and sober and circumspect Conversation, a conscientious Government of our Tongue, Praying and singing Psalms in our Families, a religious Observation of the Lord's Day, a diligent Attendance upon the Means of Grace, joining in religious Societies for Prayer and Christian Conference, and endeavouring in our places the Suppression of Profaneness and Immorality, if these and the like be called and counted the Marks and Badges of a Sect, let us not be moved at it, but say as David did, 2 Sam. 6. 22. If this be to be vile, I will be yet more vile. If the Practice of Piety be branded as a Sect, it is better for us to come under the reproaches of Men for following it, than under the Curse of God for neglecting it. It is a very small thing to be judged of Man's Day, but be that judgeth us is the Lord: 1Let us therefore be more afraid of being Sectaries, than of being called so.
2. Let us not be deterr'd from serious Godliness, or any of the Instances of it, by the invidious Name of a Sect, which is put upon it. If a 〈…〉 and sober and circumspect Conversation, a conscientious Government of our Tongue, Praying and singing Psalms in our Families, a religious Observation of the Lord's Day, a diligent Attendance upon the Means of Grace, joyning in religious Societies for Prayer and Christian Conference, and endeavouring in our places the Suppression of Profaness and Immorality, if these and the like be call'd and counted the Marks and Badges of a Sect, let us not be moved at it, but say as David did, 2 Sam. 6. 22. If this be to be vile, I will be yet more vile. If the Practice of Piety be branded as a Sect, it is better for us to come under the reproaches of Men for following it, than under the Curse of God for neglecting it. It is a very small thing to be judged of Man's Day, but be that judgeth us is the Lord: 1Let us therefore be more afraid of being Sectaries, than of being call'd so.
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