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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
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2. God himself the great Object of our Religious Regards, is every where spoken against. It is not only the Christian Revelation that is thus attacked by virulent and blasphemous Tongues, but even Natural Religion also. The Glorious and Blessed God the great Creator and Benefactor of the Universe, that doth Good to all, and whose tender Mercies are over all His Works, even He is every where spoken against. Some deny His Being: Tho' His Existence be so necessary, so evident, that if He be not, tis impossible any thing else should be, yet there are Fools who say in their hearts, what they dare not speak out, that there is no God, Psal. 14. 1. And he that saith there is no God wisheth there were none, and if he could help it there should be none. Others Blaspheme the Attributes of God, that charge the All-seeing Ey• with Blindness, saying, The Lord shall not see, Psal. 94. 7. that charge the Eternal Mind with Forgetfulness, saying, God hath forgotten, Psal. 10. 11. that charge the Almighty Arm with Impotency, saying, Can God furnish a Table in the Wilderness, which is there called speaking against God, Psal. 78. 19, ⟨p. 14⟩20. Thos•• […] promise themsel•• […] They shall not surely die, […] require it. 1And th•se that bold•• […] and Irreligi••• saying unto […] Depart from us—Job. 21. 14, 15. […] of God, tho' He is infinitely Great and Glorious, others speak hardly of Him, tho' he is infinitely Just and Good▪ The Name of God is spoken against by the profane using of it; so it is construed Psal. […] 39 20. They speak against thee wickedly, thine Enemies take thy Name in vain Can there be a greater slight put upon the Eternal God than for Men to use his Sacred and Blessed Name as a By-word, with which they give vent to their exorbitant Passions, or fill up the vacancies of their other Idle-words? The Name of God is thus abused not only by those that belch out bloody Oaths and urses which make the Ears of every good Man to tingle, but by ose that mention the Name of God slightly and irreverently, in their common Conversation;