The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

6. To be of a meek, humble and calm spirit:^s Love is not easily provoked, is long suffering, kind, self-denying, beareth, believeth, hopeth, endureth all things. An Hammer makes no noise upon wool, so a^t soft Spirit turneth away Wrath. Some men are so hot, so opinionative, so contentious, so wedded to their own conceits, so impatient of dissent, that none can have Peace with them, who will not mancipate and render up their Reason and Judgement into their hands. But though it be our Duty to try all things, and hold fast Truth, when ⟨p. 78⟩we have found it, yet we must hold it with a Spirit of Meekness. Meekness is the fittest disposition to receive truth; ^uReceive, saith the Apost. with meekness the ingrafted Word; And Meekness is the fittest disposition to teach Truth:^w In Meekness, saith St. Paul, instructing those that oppose themselves. ^xLong-Suffering and Doctrine must be joined together. Self-willedness and hastiness of Passion, are Obstructions unto the progress of Truth; else the Apostle would not have entered a Caveat against them in a Bishop: for, saith he,^y a Bishop must be blameless as the Steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, &c.

6. To be of a meek, humble and calm spirit:^s Love is not easily provoked, is long suffering, kind, self-denying, beareth, believeth, hopeth, endureth all things. An Hammer makes no noise upon wool, so a^t soft Spirit turneth away Wrath. Some men are so hot, so opinionative, so contentious, so wedded to their own conceits, so impatient of dissent, that none can have Peace with them, who will not mancipate and render up their Reason and Judgement into their hands. But though it be our Duty to try all things, and hold fast Truth, when