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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 2: The Excellency of Meekness and Quietness of Spirit.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
that is, Triumphers, we live a Life of Victory, every day a day of Triumph in the meek and quiet Soul.
Meekness is a Victory over our Selves, and the Rebellious Lusts in our own Bosoms; 'tis the quieting of intestine Broils, the stilling of an Insurrection at Home, which is oftentimes more hard to do, than to resist a foreign Invasion. It is an effectual Victory over those that injure us, and make themselves Enemies to us, and is often a means of winning their Hearts. The Law of Meekness is, If thine Enemy hung••, feed him, if he thirst [Greek or Hebrew], Propina illi, not only give him drink, (which is an Act of Charity) but drink to him, in token of Friendship, and true Love, and Reconciliation, and in so doing thou shalt heap Coals of Fire upon his Head, not to consume him, but to melt and mollify him, that he may be cast into a new mould; and thus while the angry and revengeful Man, that will bear down all before him with a high hand is overcome of evil, the patient and forgiving overcome evil with good, Rom. 12. 20, 21. and forasmuch as their ways please the Lord, he maketh even their Enemies to be at Peace with them, Pro. 16. 7. Nay, Meekness is a Victory over Satan the greatest Enemy of all: What Conquest can sound more great than that? It is written for Caution to us all, and it reflects honour upon those who through Grace overcome, that we wrestle not ⟨p. 45⟩against Flesh and Blood, but against Principalities and Powers, and the Rulers of the darkness of this World, Eph. 6. 12. The magnifying of the Adversary magnifies the Victory over him; such as these are the meek Man's vanquished Enemies, the spoils of these are the Trophies of his Victory.1 It is the design of the Devil, that great Deceiver and Destroyer of Souls, that is baffled, 'tis his attempt that is defeated, his assault that is repulsed by our Meekness and Quietness. Our Lord Jesus was more admired for his controlling and commanding the unclean Spirits, than for any other of the Cures he wrought: Unruly Passions are unclean Spirits, Legions of which some Souls are possessed with, and desperate outrageous work they make: The Soul becomes like that miserable Creature, (