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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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1. Consider who they are that speak against Religion and Godliness, not only that they are Mortal Men,1 whom the Moth shall eat up like a Garment, Men that shall die, and the Sons of Men which shall be made as Grass, all whose thoughts will shortly perish with them, and therefore why should we fear their Reproach, or be afraid of their revilings? Nor only they that are fallible Men who may be mistaken, and whose Judgment is by no means decisive, nor such as will bear us out: Shall we put what Men say in the Scale against what God saith? Let God be true and every Man a Liar. We must not be judged hereafter, and therefore should not be ruled now by the Sentiments and Opinions of Men: But those that speak against Religion are also for the most part ill Men; Men of unsettled Heads, debauched Consciences, and profligate Lives. 'Tis the Fool and none but he, that saith in his heart, there is no God. The Scoffers of the last days are Men that walk after their own Lusts, whose carnal, fleshly Interest retains them on that side. David was abused by the abjects, Psal. 35. 15. and the Christians at Thessalonica by certain lewd Fellows of the baser sort, Acts 17. 5. Such as those are the ⟨p. 48⟩M•n that make a mock at Religion […] we be […] and influenced in the […] Concerns […] Souls by […] Men as […] Shall […] have the […] of us that hav• […] themselves? Shall […] and […] of those, who know not what it is to be serious, carry the day against the delibera•• Sentiments of all Wise and Good Men, who have with one consent subscribed to the Equity and Goodness of Religion's Ways […] If we choose such as these for our Lea•ers, […] the Blind, lead the Blind, and we know the consequence.
1. Consider who they are that speak against Religion and Godliness, not only that they are Mortal Men,1 whom the Moth shall eat up like a Garment, Men that shall die, and the Sons of Men which shall be made as Grass, all whose thoughts will shortly perish with them, and therefore why should we fear their Reproach, or be afraid of their revilings? Nor only they that are fallible Men who may be mistaken, and whose Judgment is by no means decisive, nor such as will bear us out: Shall we put what Men say in the Scale against what God saith? Let God be true and every Man a Liar. We must not be judg'd hereafter, and therefore should not be rul'd now by the Sentiments and Opinions of Men: But those that speak against Religion are also for the most part ill Men; Men of unsettled Heads, debauch'd Consciences, and profligate Lives. 'Tis the Fool and none but he, that saith in his heart, there is no God. The Scoffers of the last daies are Men that walk after their own Lusts, whose carnal, fleshly Interest retains them on that side. David was abus'd by the abjects,