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Why
the
meek
(hall
inherit the
earth.
things in
other
places are
but
in
the general,
that
godlinefie
hash
the promife
of this
life,
yet
Chrì.it
will fingle
our
particu-
lar promifes for
the meek
ones.
In
the
2
S.
Pf
Jne
9.
The
meek.
(faith
the
Teat)will
he
guide
in
judgement:
and
the
mock
will
he'
teach his way :
ô
what
a
promife
is
here,
it's
worth
all
your
eflates
:
if
you
were but acquainted with Scripture,
you
would
account
this promife worth thoufands
:
give me
one
Scripture
where
the
qualification
of
the
fabje&
is
named info fewwords
twice,
the
Lord
loves the.
fubje&c'
here,
as
if
he
delighted
to
have the very
name in
his
mouth,he doth
not fay,the
meek will
be
guide in
judgement,
and teach him
his
way,
but the
Lord
loves
to
have
the
name in his
mouth, O the meek, the
meek,
twice
together,
I
love him and Ile
guide him in Judgement
and teach
him
his way, now
this
promife,
it
is
to
-be
unierflood
of
guiding
in
judgement,
and
teaching
a-
man
his
Way-in
any-
thing
;
As
for
inflance,Suppofe
a
man bath
an
outward
btti a,eiie,
befallen him
in
this
world, that
bath
a
great deale of difficulty
in
it,
fo
that
he knows
not
what in
the world
to
do
to
extricate
himfelfe out
of
his
way.
A
meek fpirit
when
he
is
in fireights;
the
fl
thing
he
labours
to do
is
this, to quiet
his
fpirit
in
re-
pófng
him
on
-Cod,
and
then
when he bath
quieted
his
fpirit
he
looks
up
to
the promife, Lord
haft
not
thou
Paid,
the meek
wilt
thou guide
in
udgement,
thou
wilt not
leave him
to
his
own
thoughts,
to
his own
fpirir, the
counfel
ofthe
froward
is
carryed head long,but the meek wilt thou
guide
in
judgement,
thou
h:41
apromife
that God
Will
guide
thee
to
order
any
af-
fáiresin
the
world,
if
thou
cad
but overcome thy
pa!fìon,
and
there
is
nothing will helpe
a mar-
more
for
underfianding
and
judgement
then meeknefs and
quietnefs, therefore
in
the
17.
Pro.
27,
He that háth
1¿ycw'edge
foareth
his words,
and
a
man
o
f
underffanding
ïs
of
an
excellent
f
prris,But in
the Origin
it
it is,
a
man
of
underflanding
is
of
a Toole
fpirit,, men
that
are
of
hot
fpirir_s,
hot brained men,
hot
fpirited men, they'
think
they
F:.
-tie
underflanding more then others; But
the
holy
Ghofl
faith
otherwif
,
the
man
of
underfland
ng:is of
a
coole
fpirit,
there
is
a
great
advantage
that
meeknefs
'harh
even
in
a naturall
way
to
helpe
a
mans
fpirit but
much níore
when
there
is a
prómife
to
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