The words contain, a serious and weighty ⟨p. 3⟩Doctrine, [Greek or Hebrew]. The Lord is near; and a Christian duty from thence inferred, Let your Moderation be known unto All Men; or an Exhortation to the Exercise of a Special Grace, and a most Solemn Argument, because, The Lord is at hand. In the Exhortation is observable, 1. The virtue it self required, expressed by the Concrete for the Abstract, not without an Emphasis, as I take it. Sometimes we find a Concrete Superlative expressed by an Abstract, Jer. 50. 31. Behold I am against thee O Pride, that is, O thou most proud: and here an Extensive Abstract expressed by a Concrete, as if he should have said, Let your Tongue, your Hand, your whole Conversation show forth to all men, upon all occasions, this excellent and most amiable Grace. 2. The Peculiarity or Characteristical difference of this virtue intimated in the word [Greek or Hebrew], not a bare Philosophical, but a Christian moderation, such as becomes Believers. 3. The Conspicuousness thereof, [Greek or Hebrew], let it be really upon all occasions manifested, for the Honour of Christ, and Credit of Religion. ⟨p. 4⟩4. The Impartiality of it, It must be manifested to all men; not only unto good men, but unto the froward, that the mouths of Adversaries may be stopped, their Prejudices refuted, their Enmities broken, and they won by the meek and humble Conversation of Believers to the obedience of the Gospel.
The words contain, a serious and weighty ⟨p. 3⟩Doctrine, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The Lord is near; and a Christian duty from thence inferred, Let your Moderation be known unto All Men; or an Exhortation to the Exercise of a Special Grace, and a most Solemn Argument, because, The Lord is at hand. In the Exhortation is observable, 1. The vertue it self required, express'd by the Concrete for the Abstract, not without an Emphasis, as I take it. Sometimes we finde a Concrete Superlative expressed by an Abstract, Ier. 50. 31. Behold I am against thee O Pride, that is, O thou most proud: and here an Extensive Abstract expressed by a Concrete, as if he should have said, Let your Tongue, your Hand, your whole Conversation shew forth to all men, upon all occasions, this excellent and most amiable Grace. 2. The Peculiarity or Characteristical difference of this vertue intimated in the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not a bare Philosophical, but a Christian moderation, such as becomes Believers. 3. The Conspicuousness thereof, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, let it be really upon all occasions manifested, for the Honour of Christ, and Credit of Religion. ⟨p. 4⟩4. The Impartiality of it, It must be manifested to all men; not onely unto good men, but unto the froward, that the mouths of Adversaries may be stopped, their Prejudices refuted, their Emnities broken, and they won by the meek and humble Conversation of Believers to the obedience of the Gospell.
