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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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It is said of the Just and Holy God, that he is Lord of his Anger, Nahum 1. 2. where we translate it, he is furious (perhaps not so well, for Fury is not in him, Isa. 27. 4. but) he is [Greek or Hebrew] the Lord of Anger, Compos irae, so some of the Critics render it; he is Master of his own Anger, and we should labour to be so too. Which some Interpreters give as the sense of that which God said to Cain, Gen. 4. 7. Unto thee, or subject unto thee, shall be its Desire, and thou shalt rule over it; viz. over this Passion of Anger, which thou hast conceived in thy Bosom, thou shouldst and (if thou wouldst use the Grace offered to ⟨p. 21⟩thee) thou mightest subdue and keep under these intemperate Heats, so as that they may not disquiet the repose of thy Soul, nor break out into any Exorbitances.
It is said of the Just and Holy God, that he is Lord of his Anger, Nahum 1. 2. where we translate it, he is furious (perhaps not so well, for Fury is not in him, Isa. 27. 4. but) he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Lord of Anger, Compos irae, so some of the Criticks render it; he is Master of his own Anger, and we should labour to be so too. Which some Interpreters give as the sense of that which God said to Cain, Gen. 4. 7. Unto thee, or subject unto thee, shall be its Desire, and thou shalt rule over it; viz. over this Passion of Anger, which thou hast conceived in thy Bosom, thou shouldst and (if thou wouldst use the Grace offer'd to ⟨p. 21⟩thee) thou mightest subdue and keep under these intemperate Heats, so as that they may not disquiet the repose of thy Soul, nor break out into any Exorbitances.