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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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4. Consider that the cause of Religion and Godliness, however it be spoken against and opposed, will infallibly be the prevailing Cause at last. We are sensible of a mighty struggle in the World betwixt the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent; Michael and his Angels on the one side, and the Dragon and his Angels on the other. Many there are that speak against Religion, and are very vigorous in opposing it, and some, tho' but a few, that are speaking for it, contending for the Faith, and striving against Sin, now it is desirable to know which of these contesting Interests will be victorious; and we may be assured that the cause of God and Religion will certainly carry the day. Contradicted Truths will be effectually cleared and vindicated; Despised Holiness will be honoured; Mistakes rectified; Reproaches rolled away; and every thing set in a true Light.1 Then you shall return and discern between ⟨p. 51⟩Truth and Falsehood, Right and Wrong, which now it is not always easy to do. The Day of the Lord is said to be in the Valley of Decision, Joel 3. 14. Because then and there will this great Cause be decided, which has been so long depending, and a definitive Sentence given from which there will lie no Appeal, and against which there will be no Exception. 2Our God will then come and will not Keep Silence; whoever now Speak against Religion he will then speak for it, and will undoubtedly be justified when he speaks, and clear when he judgeth. 3Particular Parties and Interests, as such, will wither and come to nothing, But Catholic Christianity, that is Denying Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts, and living Soberly, Righteously, and Godly in this present World, in •• pectation to the Blessed Hope: This is Good, and the Goodness of it being founded on the unchangeable will of the Eternal Mind, it is Eternally Good, and no doubt will be Eternally Glorious, whatever is said against it. This, this is that Gold, and Silver, and those Precious Stones, which will stand the Test of the Fire that shall try every Mans Work,