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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.
Nay, even now he is set down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,1 far above all Principalities and Powers, i. e. both good and evil Angels, so as to be no more hurt by the contradictions of the one, than he is benefited by the Adorations of the other, yet still he is spoken against. Besides the Contempt cast upon him by the Jews and Mahometans, are there not with us, even with us, those that daringly speak against him? Arians and Socinians are daily speaking against him2 as a mere Man, thinking that a Robbery in him, which He thought none, to be equal with God; Quakers and Entbus•asts speak against Him as a mere Name, setting up I know not what Christ within them, while they explode that Jesus that was Crucified at Jerusalem. ⟨p. 13⟩Atheists and Deists […] against Him as a mere Cheat, accounting the […] a great Imposture, and His […] a Jest. Profane and Ignorant […] slightly of Him, as if our Beloved were no more than anoth•• beloved; and some […] cornfully of Him,3 as Julian the Apostate did, that called Him in disdain the Galilean, and the Carpenter's Son. Such as these are the hard speeches, 4which ungodly Sinners have spoken against Him, the Lord rebuke them; even the Lord that hath chose• Jerusalem rebuke them.
Nay, even now he is set down at the righthand of the Majesty on high,1 far above all Principalities and Powers, i. e. both good and evil Angels, so as to be no more hurt by the contradictions of the one, than he is benefitted by the Adorations of the other, yet still he is spoken against. Besides the Contempt cast upon him by the Iews and Mahometans, are there not with us, even with us, those that daringly speak against him? Arians and Socinians are daily speaking against him