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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
A Discourse concerning MEEKNESS. › Chapter 1: The Nature of Meekness and Quietness of Spirit.
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Meekness in the School of the Philosophers is a Virtue consisting in a mean between the extremes of rash excessive Anger on the one Hand, and a defect of Anger on the other, in which Aristotle confesseth it very hard exactly to determine.1
Meekness in the School of the Philosophers is a Virtue consisting in a mean between the extreams of rash excessive Anger on the one Hand, and a defect of Anger on the other, in which Aristotle confesseth it very hard exactly to determine.1
- 1Ethic. l. 4. c. 6.
Meekness in the School of Christ is one of the Fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5. 22, 23. it is a Grace (both gratis data, and gratum faciens) wrought by the Holy Ghost both as a Sanctifier and as a Comforter in the Hearts of all true Believers, teaching and enabling them at all times to keep their passions under the Conduct and Government of Religion and right Reason: I say it is wrought in the Hearts of all true Believers, because, though there are some rough and knotty pieces that the Spirit works upon, whose Natural Temper is unhappily sower and harsh, which are long in the squaring; yet wheresoever there is true Grace, there is a disposition to strive against, and strength in some measure to conquer that Distemper. And tho' in this as in other Graces an absolute Sinless Perfection cannot be expected in this present state, yet we are to labour after it and press towards it.
More particularly: The Work and Office of Meekness is to enable us prudently to govern our own anger when at any time we are provoked, and patiently to bear the Anger of others, that it may not be a provocation to us. The former is its Office especially in Superiors, the latter in Inferiors, and both in Equals.