Yqo The meek {hall inherit the earth. With alllowlineffe and meekneJ7c,withlong fuffering, forbearing one another in love ; Here's the way to walke worthy of oar cal- fng : it's the way of walking worthy of all mercies, of Gods de- livering of us fromour bondage, when we can in meekneffe and lowlinefJe, and long fafferin,f, f)rbeare one another, This is the walking worthy of our calling. Now I come to that which I have here in the Text. For they fhall inherit the earth. It's as orange a promife as any we have in Scripture, As much again carnal reafon as any thing almoft in all the book of God : Blef ed are the mee& : ---- I you will fay they are bleffed; they may get to heaven when they dye, but they ate like CO fuffer a great deale of wrongwhile they live : Nay if we do put up wrongs and beare with others that do us injuries, we may have wrongs enough, and we may quickly loofe all that ever we have, this is the reafoning of a carnal heart, but Jefus Chrift if you dare truft, him, he profeßès that of all men in the world the meek are thofe that {hall inherit the earth,it {hall be better with them in the earth then with other men. Now you will fay, Can that make them 6/eff edthat they fhall inherit the earth r To that the anfwer is. Yes, that way of inheritance of the earth is a great bleffedneffe, and a certaine argument of a man bleffed by God, not becaufe he {hall have riches in the earth, but he ilia!! inherit it as a child of God,he (hall have the right mito the things of the earth as an Heire : Men may have the things of the earth by a donation from Cods bounty, and fo I do not thinke they are ufurpers of what they have, God gives it them as a Prince, or Judge {hould give a malefi&or fomewhat to maintain him for his diet two or three dayes after the fentence of death till he comes to be executed, now he doth not ufurpe his meate that he doth eate, for it is given him freely, fo wicked men,they have the things of this earth in that way given them by donation to live, though the fentence of deathbe upon them, and though they have ;forfited all the com-
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=