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What meant
by
s-,aeek,ief'e.
177
gracious'meekneffe, grace will teach men
and
women to be
meek
and
gentle
when
they
are croft
themfelves, but grace
will
never teach them
to
be meek,
fo as
not to
be angry when
God
is
dithonoured:
you
flail
find
that thole that
are in Scrip-
ture fet out
as
the
molt eminent
men for meekneffe in
their
own caufe,
yet
when
it
comes
to Gods
caufe,
they
have
been
the
molt
eminent
in zeale :
as
for
the
example
of
Mofes,
if
you read
the
i
z
of
Numbers,
you fhaIl find
that
the
Lord
Both
give that
Teftimony
of
Mores,
that
he
was
the
meekefi
man up-
on
earth, but
yet
you know
the
ftory
of
Mofes,
when
he came
down from
the
Mount and
faw
how
the children
of
Ifrael
had
let
up
an
Idoli
(
the Golden
Calfe)
Mofes
was
all
on fire
and having
the
Tables
of
hone
where the
Law was
written in
his
hands,
and having
receiv'd them from
God
himfelfe,
yet
when he
faw
that Idoll,
he
woke
thofe Tables and
threw them
down
and brake
them
to
pieces in
his
zeale
forGod
:
yea and
after
he
had
done
that,
he
firs
up
the
people
to
take
their
fwords and
flay
their Brethren,
and
yet
Mofes
the
meekef
man
that ever liv'd
upon
the
face of
the earth
---.We
read
of
Chrift himfelfe, that
he propounds himfelfe
as
a
pattern
of
meeknefle,
Learne
of
me
for
I
am
meek yet
when
he
comes
to
the
Scribes and
Pharilees that were wretched
enemies
againft
the
power
of
godlinefle,
though
they
made
an
outward
thew
and
fo
feduced the people
in making
them beleeve
that
all
Re-
ligion did
confift
in
outward
formes,Woe
faith
he,
to
you Scribes
_
and
Pharifees,
hypocrites,
he pronounces
eight
woes
againl1
them
in one
Chapter,
Math
23,
and
fpeakes in
a
molt
bitter
way
:
Never did
any
godly man preach
with
a
greater
bitter-
neffe
.(
as
Imay
fo
fpeake
)
for
it
was
a
bitter
anger
that Chrift
had
againft
the
Scribes and
Phariïee
in
his fpe.iking
to them,
and
yet
the
meekeft
man
that ever
was
;
it
was
a
bitterneffe
of
fpirit,
and
you
cannot find
more fiery zeale in
any
againft fin
then
you
f
nd
in
Jefus Ch,
ift
when he came and faw
how
they
did
abufe
the
houle
of
God,
he
threw
downthe
Tables of the
Money
-
changers,
and
tooke cords and made
a
whip,andwhipt
them out
of themTemples,the
zeal
of
Gods houfe
eat
hm
up---
And
fo
Paul that
was
very
meeke,
and
writes
to
Timothy
to
A
a
infirsR