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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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Now if Charity be for Peace-making, Surely this Charity begins at home and is for making Peace there in the first place; Peace in our own Souls, is some conformity to the example of the God of Peace, who tho' he doth not always give Peace on this Earth, yet evermore makes Peace in his own high place, Job 25. v. 2. This,1, some think, is the primary intention of that Peace-making, on which Christ there commands the Blessing: It is to have strong and hearty affections to Peace, to be peaceable-minded; for making in Scripture notes the bent and inclination of the Soul; as to make a Lye, is to be given to Lying; so to make Peace, is to be addicted to Peace; to have a disposition in the Soul ready to command the Peace, when there is at any time, any kind of disturbance. In a word: Quietness of Spirit is the Soul's stillness, and silence, from intending Provocation to, or resenting Provocation from any with whom we have to do.
Now if Charity be for Peace-making, Surely this Charity begins at home and is for making Peace there in the first place; Peace in our own Souls, is some conformity to the example of the God of Peace, who tho' he doth not always give Peace on this Earth, yet evermore makes Peace in his own high place, Job 25. v. 2. This,1, some think, is the primary intention of that Peace-making, on which Christ there commands the Blessing: It is to have strong and hearty affections to Peace, to be peaceable-minded; for making in Scripture notes the bent and inclination of the Soul; as to make a Lye, is to be given to Lying; so to make Peace, is to be addicted to Peace; to have a disposition in the Soul ready to command the Peace, when there is at any time, any kind of disturbance. In a word: Quietness of Spirit is the Soul's stillness, and silence, from intending Provocation to, or resenting Provocatio• from any with whom we have to do.
- 1Dr. Hammond. Practlater. p. 125Dr. H•mmond. Practlater. p. 125