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-196

Why

the

meek

fhall inherit the earth

.

whereas

if

you

were but meeke

Gods

anger would

be

kindled

for you,and

do

you

not think

that the

anger

of God

being

kin,1

--

led

againif

thole

that

do

you

wrong, will

Goner right

your

caufe

then

when your

own

anger is

kindled

:

and fo

I

rind

that

when

David.ià the

3

8.

Pf

13. v,

had wron3 and

yet

was

very:

meek

in his

wrong,

God

was

interetfed

in

the

buf

nets. He

Complainer

of

his

wrong

before, My

lovers

and

my

fr

:ends

Gland

aloofe

from

my

fore,

and

my

Kin)men

Gland

afarre

of,

they

alto

that

feeke

after

my

life

lay.

fares

for

me,

and

they

that

fake,

my

hurt

fpeakmifchievorms

things, and.

imagine

deceits

all

the

day

long:

Well,

was

Davids

fpirit

ífirred

now

in anger and

fro-

wardnefs

-?

No,

But. (.faith

he)

I

ae

a deaf

man

heard

-not,

and.

I,

was

as

a

dumb

man

that

openeth

not

his

mouth;

though they

did

fpeak,mifchievous things

againff

me,

I,

as a

dumb

man

opened

not

my

mouth,

and mark

in

the

14.

v:: 7hue

I

was

as

a

man

that

heareth

not,

and

in

whole

month

there

are

no

reproofs,

but

then

in

the 15.

v:

For

in

thee

O

Lord

doe

I

hope, thou

wilt

heare,

0

Lord

my

God

:

Here's

the

reafon

that

made

him

fo

meek, O Lord,

faith he, when

they

thus fpeake againff

me and

wronged

me,

I

was as

;deaf

man, and

T

heard

not,I

opened not

my

mouth,

and

the

reafon why

I

did not,

was

becaufe

I

had

a

God

to

truit

in

:

O

you

that

are

carnal

indeed,

and know

not

the

way

of

God,

when

you

are

angry

you have

nothing to help

you, but the railing

ofthe

pail

on of

your

anger,

I

but

a

Saint

of

God bath

fomething elfe

to helphi.r,faith

h

:

:,Ididhopesn,thee

O Lord,

Thou wilt

keare:

Mark,

I

heard

not,

but Lord

I

hope

in

thee

that

thou mil.

hear. The

lefs

thou

doff

hear when thou

art

wronged, the more

wilt

God

hear. O

that

we

had but

fuch

a

fpirit

as

the

Servants

ofGod

had

in

frnier

times,

Mofes, and

David

here,_0

how do

they intereft

Gad

in.the Caúfe.

Sixthly,The meek fhall

have bleftings

here

upon

theearth

be-

'caufe

there

are fomany

gracious tsromifes;

(befides this)made

to

them

ofvery

great mercy that will helpe them even

intne

earth: Thispromi

e

that

you have

heare,

it

is

in

the 37. Pfal:

r

1.

verf.

It

is

a

promife

that

was

in

the time

of

the

Law,

and

mark,

Chriff

would

Thew

that

the Intale

is

not cut

off;

it

is

re-

newed

againe

its

the

Gofpel,

though

the

promife

of

outward

things,.