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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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Sixthly, If there be those every where that speak against Religion and Godliness, let us then as we have opportunity be ready to speak for it. Every Christian should be both a Witness and an Advocate for his Religion, and the rather because it is so much opposed and contradicted. Next to our Car• not to be a Shame to the Gospel, should be our Resolution not to be […] of the Gospel. You are Subpoenaed by the King of Kings to appear for him in the World: Ye are my Witnesses saith the Lord, Isa. 43. 10. Do not betray this Cause then by ••clining your Testimony, how muc• soever you may be brow-beaten and confronted. Say with a holy boldness as Elihu, Job 36. 2. Suffer me a little and I will show you, that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. You hear what is daringly said against God, how his holy Name is trampled upon and abused, his Truths contradicted, his Word and Ordinances vilified, and have you never a word to say for him? Is our Lord ••sus appearing for us in Heaven, pleading our Cause there, pleading it with his own blood, and shall not we be ready to appear for him on Earth, and plead his Cause though it were with the hazard of […] blo•d? As it is then a time to •eep silence, when we our selves are spoken against, I as a Deaf Man heard not, so it is then a time to speak, when God is spoken against, ⟨p. 45⟩and the […] our […] li•s at stake,1 and at such a time […] heed, […] by a cowardly silence […] so Just a Cause,2 as if we were either […] or afraid to […] Wisdom's Children should take all […] to justify Wisdom, and indicate it from the aspersions that are cast upon it. Read the doom of him that is ashamed of Christ and of his Words in this adulterous generation.