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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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When the injured Levite had pitched upon a very barbarous Course to irritate the Tribes of Israel (who commonly were too fiery to need a Spur) against the Men of Gibeah, yet withal he referred the matter to their deliberate Counsels, to teach us when our Hearts are meditating revenge, to do likewise, Judg. 19. 30. so and so the matter is, consider of it, take advice, and then speak your minds. When Job had any quarrel with his Servants, he was willing to admit a rational debate of the matter, and to hear what they had to say for themselves: For (saith he) what shall I do when God riseth up? and withal, did not he that made me in the Womb, make him? Job 31. 13, 14, 15. When our Hearts are at any time hot within us, we would do well to put that Question to our selves which God put to Cain, Gen. 4. 6. Why am I wroth? Why am I angry at all? Why so soon angry? Why so very angry? Why so far transported and dispossessed of my ⟨p. 19⟩self by my anger? What reason is there for all this? Do I well to be angry for a Gourd? that came up in a Night, and perished in a Night, Jona. 4. 9. Should I be touched to the quick by such a sudden and transient Provocation? Will not my cooler Thoughts correct these hasty Resentments, and therefore were it not better to check them now? Such are the reasonings of the Meekness of Wisdom.
When the injur'd Levite had pitch'd upon a very barbarous Course to irritate the Tribes of Israel (who commonly were too fiery to need a Spur) against the Men of Gibeah, yet withall he refer'd the matter to their deliberate Counsels, to teach us when our Hearts are meditating revenge, to do likewise, Iudg. 19. 30. so and so the matter is, consider of it, take advice, and then speak your minds. When Iob had any quarrel with his Servants, he was willing to admit a rati•nal debate of the matter, and to hear what they had to say for themselves: For (saith he) what shall I do when God riseth up? and withal, did not he that made me in the Womb, make him?