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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.
To use those forms of speech which properly signify an Acknowledgement and Adoration of God's Being, as O God, or O Lord, or an Appeal to his Omniscience, as God knows, or an Invocation of his Favour, as God bless me, or God be merciful to me• I say, to use these or the like expressions impertinently, and intending thereby to express only our wonder, our surprise, or our passionate resentments, or any thing than that which is their proper and awful signification, is an evidence of a vain mind, that wants a due regard to that glorious and fearful Name, 1The Lord our God. I see not that the Profanation of the Ordinance ⟨p. 15⟩of praying, is any bett•• […] the Profanation of the Ordinance of Swearing. The serious •••sideration of this, I hope, might prevent much of that […] which is […] God, and to his Holy Name, by some that […] not with others to an exce•• of Ri•t.
To use those forms of speech which properly signify an Acknowledgment and Adoration of God's Being, as O God, or O Lord, or an Appeal to his Omniscience, as God knows, or an Invocation of his Favour, as God bless me, or God be merciful to me• I say, to use these or the like expressions impertinently, and intending thereby to express only our wonder, our surp•ize, or our passionate resentments, or any thing than that which is their proper and awful signification, is an evidence of a vain mind, that wants a due regard to that glorious and fearful Name, 1The Lord our God. I see not that the Profanation of the Ordinance ⟨p. 15⟩of praying, is any bett•• 〈…〉 the Profanation of the Ordinance of Swearing. The serious •••sideration of this, I hope, might prevent much of that which is God, and to his Holy Name, by some that not with others to an exce of Rit.