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

To affect us herewith, let us consider,

1. The great Dishonour hereby done to our God in the World. They that reflect upon his Truths and Ways, his Word and Ordinances, reflect upon him, He that toucheth these toucheth the apple of his eye; If therefore we have any love to God, or concern for his Honour, and have cordially espoused the Interests of his Kingdom, what is an Affront to him, will surely be a Grief to us. It cannot but be a very melancholy Thought to every sensible Soul, That the God that made the World is made so light of in the World, That he who doth so much Good to the Children of Men, hat• so little Honour from them, nay, and hath so much Dishonour done him by them every day,¹ and his Name continually blasphemed. That the Lord Jesus, who so loved the World, is so much hated and despised by the World. The Reproaches of them who thus reproach our Master, if we be his faithful Servants we should feel as falling upon us. ²And if he take what is said and done against his People, as said and done against himself, much more reason have they to find themselves aggrieved in that which is said and done against him. If we pray heartily that God's Name may be hallowed, as we should do every day, we should grieve heartily that his Name is dishonoured, as we see it is every day. And our resentments of the Reproach cast upon God and Religion, we should make a humble and pious Remonstrance of before God in Prayer, as King Hezekiah spread Rabshakeh's blasphemous Letter before the Lord, with that tender and affectionate Request, Lord bow down thine ear and hear: Open, Lord, thine eyes and see, 2 Kin. 19. 16. How pathetically doth Joshua ⟨p. 35⟩plead, chap. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great Name? And with what a concern doth the Psalmist in the name of the Church insist upon this,