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Why
the
meek (hall inherit
the
earth.
Kings,
they
could
get
it
that
way
a
great deale
better
then
any,
other
way.
So
now,
Is there
any
caufe.that thou
wouldf}
faine
have
fuccefs
in,
here
in
thi3
earth
?
It
may be thou wilt
be
wrangling and
quarreling thy felfe,
and
think
to
get
it
by
thy
own
arength,
and making
of
friends:this will not doe
it;
a hun-
dred to
one
but
thou
wile
mircarry,
but
now
if
thou
cana with
mekneiie
give
it
up
to
vod,
turne
it
over
to God,
and
intrea:
God
in
this
caufe, certainly
then
thou
wilt
have fuccef
e
in
it,
and
fo
thou wilt
come to
have
thy
mind and
will
:even
here
in
.
this wo'id
;
Ile
give you
an
excellent Scripture
for
this,
in
the
1'2
of Numbers,
you have.
Mofes
commended
there
for
the
meekneßè of
his
fpirir, and the
man
Mofes was
very
meet
a
above
all
the men
that,were
-upon
the face
°.of
the earth':
I
remember
4mbr.
fe
fait
h
concerning
Mofes,
That
all his
great
vp4is
did
not
marehim
fo,
honourable
as
his
meelnef
e
did, and Chry
f
fíeme
gives the
reafon why
God
would
f
,eak face
to
face
with
Mofes
rather
then
with
any ocher,
it
was becaufe
of
his
extraordinary
meek
-ef
e
:
and
the
j
ewes
have
this
tradition, that
when
Mofes
was
todye,
God
came
to
hiña
and embraced him, and fuekt
out
his
four,
how
ever the
Tradition
-is,
the
foul
is
very
deare
to
Cod,
and
if
ever God
would draw.a
foule our fuck
a
way,
it
would
be the
foule
of
Mofes, and
now fee
how'he
doh
in-
trea
God
in
a
great
caufe,
anal
how-God
doth'take
it
;
we
fhall
.
find
in
this
Chaq;ter
that
Mofes
had
a
great deal ofwrong done
hina,it's
fail
that Miriam
and Aaron
fpake
aping
M
jer,hecaufe
.
of
the Ethiopian
womanwhom he
had marryed,
and
they raid,.
Lath
the
Lord
fpolenonly
by
Mofes,
&c. and
the Lord
head
it,
faith the Text
:
They
came and
wrangled
with Mz
fer,
what's
.
this
Mofs,as
if
ivy
{hould fay, what bath
the
Lord
fpokento
Mofes
alone
?.
ht
would
take
all
iron
hiriafelf
,
and
he
would
lift
up himfelfe
above
others,. I but
Mo
fer is
but
an
ordinary
man
as
others
are,
and bath
marryed
an
Eth'apian woman, and
fo
they fpake agaiñaMófes,
but
nowyou
doe not
heir
that
Mo
fes began
to
exclaim againfl
rhem,and_cry out
a=ainf}
them, no,
but
the
man
Mof
rs
was
very
meek?
above
a"
!he
men
that
were
upon
the
fare
of
he
earth
:
Mark now,
how
this uaeeknefle
did
iñtrzû_God
in
his caufe
; And
,
the.
Lord
fpake
fuddáinly
unto