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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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1Let us not do any thing that is unjust, or unbecoming, us, nor allow our selves in that which we know the Gospel we profess doth by no means allow of, lest we be to answer another day, for all the Reproach of Religion which we have occasioned: How light soever we may make of this now, we shall find that it will greatly inflame the Reckoning shortly, when God will affect the Honour of his own Name, and will be glorified upon those by whom he was not glorified. In consideration of this, let us see to it that we have our Conversation honest among the Adversaries of our Religion, that they who speak against us as Evil-doers, ⟨p. 44⟩may,2 […], our Good Works which they shall behold, be brought to glorify God, and to entertain good thoughts of Religion, or at least, that we may with well-doing put to silence the ignorance of foolish Men. 3Our Religion, I am sure, is an Honour to us; let not us then be a Dishonour to it.
1Let us not do any thing that is unjust, or unbecoming, us, nor allow our selves in that which we know the Gospel we profess doth by no means allow of, lest we be to answer another day, for all the Reproach of Religion which we have occasion'd: How light soever we may make of this now, we shall find that it will greatly enflame the Reckoning shortly, when God will affect the Honour of his own Name, and will be glorified upon those by whom he was not glorified. In consideration of this, let us see to it that we have our Conversation honest among the Adversaries of our Religion, that they who speak against us as Evil-doers, ⟨p. 44⟩may,2 〈…〉, our Good Works which they shall behold, be brought to glorify God, and to entertain good thoughts of Religion, or at least, that we may with well-doing put to silence the ignorance of foolish Men.