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Meek!
perforas
like,
God.
183
or
any
other grace
;
No,
faith
Chrift,.
If
you
would
be
my
Difcr}:ie,
a'
o
ld commend
this
to
you,,
.L:
au
humble and
meeke
:
Why
?
was
that the great commendations of
Chriii
?
yes,
the
Lord
id,
us
accounted
it
his
glory
to
be
meeke
;
Doe
not
you account
it
a
diihonour;
why.
is,that
a
diihonour to
thee
that
was
an honour
to<.
Jefus-
Christ
?
fhall
Jefus,Ch:
iii
reckon
k
his
Glory
to be
a
meeke
man;
and shalt
not
thou account
it
tube
thy
Glory
?
U.
bL:fled
be.
thofe:that: are. like.
God
the
Father;
and-
God
the.
Son:.
And
they
have much
of
the Spirit
of God
:
what
was
the
Spirit of God compared to more then
meekneffe
;
when
the
Holy
Gholf
did
appear
upon the.
head of
jefus
Chrift,.
he did
Toh.
appear
in
the forme
of
a.
dove
;-
now
they
fay of.
the
Dove,,
it
ha,
h
no
gall,
it
is
the
emblème
of
meekneffe
:,
Therefore
if
thou wouldlt
be
like
either Father,
Son
or
Holy.
Ghoft,-
thou
mutt
be
a
man or woman
of
a
meeke.
and
gentle
i
i
it,<
bleffed
are`thofe
that
are
mieke,,
for they have much
of Father,
Son
and
Holy Ghol
c
in
them
;-
It's
very
obfervable
that
God
in
his
Sa-
crifices he would
not
have Lyons and
Tygers
and
fuch
wild
creatures
ro
be
offered
in
Sacrifice
to
him; nor no
birds of
prey,
but
he
would
have
the Dove
and"
the Pigeon;
and
the
Lamb
and
the Sheep,
the
Lord
Both
regard rather
`such
facrifi-
ces,,then the froward perverfe
fpirits
of
men
:.
Ile give
you
now
but
one.
Scripture for
the bleffèdneffe of
meeke-
fpirits ;
There
are
may
promifes
made
to
thofe.that are meeke,
here's
one great
one in my
Text,
but
for the: prefent
only
this one
Scripture, that
one
would thinke
all thofe who
have
found any
good
by
Scripture
should
for
ever
lay
upon'
their hearts
to
meeken their
fpirits
:
And efpecially
it
is
applyed
to
women,
for
they are
the
weaker fex,
and"paflion
and anger-
comes from
we:,knef
e, therefore the
Holy
Ghoft
in
the
i
of
Pet.
3,
4
Where
he
is
fpeaking
unto women, exhorting'
them
to
Chew
themfelves
the
Daughters
of
Sarah, frith
he,
likewi
feye
wives
be
in
fubjeaion
to'
your
own
hiusbands,
that
if
any
obey
not
the
word,
they
may
without
i
he
word he
won 67
the cnverfati000'
of
the
wives,
whsle
they'
behold
your chaff cone-
faZon
coupled
ul
-