A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon…

It is agreeable to the regular course of Justice, that all Judgments be adjourned till the Judgment-Day, and all Executions deferred till Execution-Day: And therefore now he condescends to reason with those that speak against him, for their Conviction, as he doth by the Prophet Ezek. 18. 25, &c. where he fairly debates the Case with those who said, The way of the Lord is not equal, That every Mouth ⟨p. 29⟩may be stopped with an unanswerable Argument before it be stopped with an irreversible Sentence, and those who have spoken against him may be sent speechless to Hell.¹ He keeps silence now, because when he doth speak he will be justified. When our Lord Jesus was here upon Earth, with what an invincible Patience did he endure the contradiction of Sinners; when so many ill things were witnessed against him he was silent,² to admiration, answered not a word to all their unjust Calumnies and Accusations,³ but at the same time he bound them over to the Judgment of the great Day by that awful word, Mat. 26. 64. Hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Power,—and still he bears in expectation of that same Day.⁴ He doth not take Vengeance presently because he hath an Eternity before him for the doing of it.

It is agreeable to the regular course of Justice, that all Judgments be adjourn'd till the Iudgment-Day, and all Executions defer'd till Execution-Day: And therefore now he condescends to reason with those that speak against him, for their Convicttion, as he doth by the Prophet Ezek. 18. 25, &c. where he fairly debates the Case with those who said, The way of the Lord is not equal, That every Mouth ⟨p. 29⟩