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Epheflans,
C
hap.
4.
V
E
R.
2.
dwell
in
and
folacc
himfelfe with the humble
and
lowly
foule.
So
of
humility.
The
next
is
meekneffe, thefe
are ufually
joy
ne.d
together and
flill goe hand in
hand
as
it were. Humility
is
as
the mother,
rreekneffe
as
the daughter,
that
as
the
roote,
this
as
the fruit.
No
foule canbee
meek
which
is
not
firft
humble. And
here
doth
wife
the
like
obferva-
D
.
don to the
former, That
if
we will walk
worthy
of
our Chriflian
cal-
m
walk wor-
ling, we mutt
walke
in meekneffe.
Here wee will follow the former
thy
of
our
cal-
courfe, and
Phew,
walk meekly
r.
What
this
meekneffe
is.
2. Lay
downe the grounds
of
it.
3.
Come to
application.
Then
meekneffe
is a
vertue
or grace planted
in
the heart
by Gods
What meek-
Spirir,moderating
anger, taking
off
the edge
of
revenge,
and teaching
nette
is
us
to
carry,our felves meekly towards
God
and
men. Fielt, it
bath
the
heart for the
fubjed,
as
had
humility: for
as
the
Sea
is
the
receptacle
of
all
waters,
fo
is
the heart of all fanétifying
graces. Peter fpeakes
of
a
meek and
a
quiet fpirit, t
Pet.
3.4.
There
is
no
meekneffe
in a
man
untill
the
fpirit be meek.
A
wrathfull
fpirit
fees
on
fire
the whole
man.
Secondly,
it
commeth
from Gods Spirit,thc onely
and
common
well`
fpring
of
all fpirituall and faving
grace.
Meekneffe
is
one or the
fweet
fruits
of
the holy
Spirit, G4l.5.
z
3.
And that
wilder/it which
is
gentle,
is
from
above.
Our
fpirits are
by nature
fierce,
fi,d of
envy
and
contention.
Rom.:. ag
We
mull have this
meekneffe
of
fpirit
from
a
new nature wrought
in
us
by Gods
Spirit.
The effe&
Thirdly,
for the
effects
of
this meekneffe.
The
firft
generali work
and
duties
meekneffe
of
of
it
is
to moderate and temper our anger that it doe not
exceed the
general!.
due
limits,
nor
burn
with too
hot
a
flame.
A
wife man
doth
deferre
Yrov.19.1
r.
or
flay
his anger
(faith
Solomon.)
And the
praife
of
Mofes
meekneffe,
who
in
this did excell all men on
the
face
of
the earth, was, that
when
1
aren and
citiriam
did
murmur againft
him
,
did vilify him
and
e-
quall themfelves
to him, he
was
not
provoked to wrath again(' them.
It
is
I
fay
in
moderating
anger, not
in
utter rooting or razing
it
out: for
it
is
fo
planted
in
mans
nature,as that it
is
of
good
ufe
even
in
our
Chri-
flian courfe
to refill and
put
away
fuch impediments
as
oppofe
us
in
it.
And therfore afterward
in
the 26.
verle
the
Apoflle doth
give leave
to
be
angry
fo wee
finite
not
in
our anger ;
and
Mofes
who
was
the
meekeft man
in
his
dayes, was
angry
at
the golden
calfe
of
the
lfae-
lites,Exod.3z.
19.
Yea
our bleffed
Saviour, who
was
a
lambe for
gentlenefTe,
at the wilful' hardnef
e
of
heart
of the
Iewes,
make
31.
Af#eûions
in
the
foule are
as
windes
in
the
ayre.
Now
the
windes
are
troublefome three
wates.
1.
When
they blow not
at all
or
are too calme, then the
Sea-fa-
ring man mutt lye
fill,
or
can
make
fmall
fpeed
en
his
voyage.
2.
When
they
blow
againft
us,
then they make the progreffe
of
the
(hip
heavy
and
laborious, or endanger to
drive
it
back.
3.
When
they
are
too boyflerous, for
then by their violence the
(hips