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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
Christianity no Sect to be spoken against. › Now for the APPLICATION of this DOCTRINE.
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2. They pretend that it is not Religion that they ridicule and expose to Contempt, but some particular Forms and Modes of religious Worship which they do not like. And this is one ill effect of the unhappy Divisions among Christians, that while one side hath laboured to make the other contemptible; Religion in general hath suffered on all sides. To reprove what we think amiss, with Prudence and Meekness is well, but to reproach and make a Jest of that which our Fellow-Christians look upon as Sacred, and make a part of their Religion, cannot be to any good purpose at all. To scoff at the Mistakes and Weaknesses of our Brethren, is the way to provoke and harden them, but not to convince and reform them. They who think to justify this way of ridiculing those that differ from them, by the Instance of Elijah's jeering the Priests of ⟨p. 40⟩Ba••, perhaps Know not what manner of Spirit they are of, no more than th•se Disciples did who would have their intemperate Heats countenanced by the Example of that great […].1
2. They pretend that it is not Religion that they ridicule and expose to Contempt, but some particular Forms and Modes of religious Worship which they do not like. And this is one ill effect of the unhappy Divisions among Christians, that while one side hath labour'd to make the other contemptible; Religion in general hath suffer'd on all sides. To reprove what we think amiss, with Prudence and Meekness is well, but to reproach and make a Iest of that which our Fellow-Christians look upon as Sacred, and make a part of their Religion, cannot be to any good purpose at all. To scoff at the Mistakes and Weaknesses of our Brethren, is the way to provoke and harden them, but not to convince and reform them. They who think to justify this way of ridiculing those that differ from them, by the Instance of Elijah's jeering the Priests of ⟨p. 40⟩Ba••, perhaps Know not what manner of Spirit they are of, no more than th•se Disciples did who would have their intemperate Heats countenanced by the Example of that great 〈…〉.