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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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Even just Appeals made to him, if they be made in Passion, are not admitted into the Court of Heaven, being not duly put in; that one thing is Error sufficient to overrule them: Let not therefore those that do well and suffer for it, spoil their own Vindication by mis-timing and mis-managing it, but tread in the steps of the Lord Jesus, Who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered he threatened not, but was as a Lamb dumb before the Shearers, and so committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. It is indeed a great piece of Self-denial to be silent, when we have enough to say, and provocation to say it; but if we do thus control our Tongues out of a pure regard to Peace and Love, it will turn to a good account, and will be an evidence for us that we are Christ's Disciples, having learned to deny our selves. It is better by silence to yield to our Brother, who is, or hath been, or may be our Friend, than by angry speaking to yield to the Devil, who hath been, and is, and ever will be our sworn Enemy.
Even just Appeals made to him, if they be made in Passion, are not admitted into the Court of Heaven, being not duly put in; that one thing is Error sufficient to overrule them: Let not therefore those that do well and suffer for it, spoil their own Vindication by mis-timing and mis-managing it, but tread in the steps of the Lord Jesus, Who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffer'd he threatned not, but was as a Lamb dumb before the Shearers, and so committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. It is indeed a great piece of Self-denial to be silent, when we have enough to say, and provocation to say it; but if we do thus control our Tongues out of a pure regard to Peace and Love, it will turn to a good account, and will be an evidence for us that we are Christ's Disciples, having learn'd to deny our selves. It is better by silence to yield to our Brother, who is, or hath been, or may be our Friend, than by angry speaking to yield to the Devil, who hath been, and is, and ever will be our sworn Enemy.