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YI
hat
meant
by
med
net
f
è.,
power
over
thenifelves, to
moderate the
passion
of
their
anger
they
are
meeke.
NON
there
is
a
naturali meekneffe fometimes from
the
con
-
f
i
ution of
mansbody
:
many
men
are
not
fo
prone to
anger
naturallyas othermen are,
from
their very temper
of
body;
:others
are more cholletick
in
their
wary
'temper
And
fó
there
is
a
naturallmeeanelle that
arifes
f.oin
the ftrength of
Reafon,
a:man
that
isbut
a
rational! man,
yet'
by his
reason
may be
able
to
curb
his
anger
in
great measure
:
But this meek
-
nefie
molt
goe beyond
there, the
naturali
meeknefle
from*
the
temper
of the
body,
or
that
that comes from
the ftrength
of
Reafon
:
And
if
you
would knowhow
it
goes beyond
them,
youmay
take
it
in
thefe particulars.
Fiat,
One that
is
meeke
naturaIIy,he
is
meeke
in fome
out
ward thing wherein
others would be angry, butthis meekneffe
of
his
that is
but natural',
it
loth
quench
all
zeale for
God,
it
Both riot
'land
with the exercife
of the
grace
of
zeale
for_
God
;'_But now fpiricuall
meekneffe is
fuch
( being
a
grace
of
the
Holy
Ghoft)
as
there
is
in
it
no oppofitión to
any
other
grace,
that
s
a
certdine rule
:
Several!
vices may be contrary
one
to
another, yet
no grace can
be contrary
to
ano
:her
grace
:
Therefore
thofe
men that
are
meeke fpirirually, they
are zea-
lous
to
:
They
have
friricuall principles
in
them,
which makes
them
meeke,
and able
to
mo
4erate
their
anger in
their
own
caufe, yet
thofe principles
will make
them
zealous
for
God,
but
now
where
the
principle
of
meekneife
is
but
natural',
from
the
conftitution
Of a
mans
body,
or
only
rower of
Reafon,why
this
will quench zeale
;
thofe
that
are meeke thus, they are
not
acquainted with the Grace
of
zeale for
God,
as
it
appeares
plainly
;
You
have fome
men
and women
you fay you candor
anger
them,
they will never be angry,
it
may
be
their
children
and
fervants
do
fuch
things
as
would anger you, but
they
are
very
patient
and
quiet
and
meek,
and
they bare
all
;
now
it
may
be
you
think
that
this
is
front
true
grace, no,
and
you
will
know
it
by
this',
that their children
when they
doe
any
thing
amilfe againft'them
they are
nor angry, no nor though
their
children
fin
againft
God, they
are
not
angry,
now this
is
no
gracious
....,,.Ç