194 Why the meeke fha11 inherit the earth. Kings, they could get it that way a great deale better then any, other way. So noyv, Is there any caufe that thou woulda faine have fuccefs in, here in this earth ? It may be thou wilt be wrangling and quarreling thy felfe, and think to get it by thy own flrength, and making of friends :this will not doe it; a hun- dred to one but thou wilt mifcarry, but now if thou cana with: meekneffe give it up to od, turne it over to God, and increa. God in this caufe, certainly then thou wilt have fuccefle in it, and fo thou wilt come to have thy mind and will even here in . this wo ld ; Ile give you an excellent Scripture for this, in the ri of Numbers, y ou have Mofes commended there for the meekneffe of his fpirir, and the manMofes was very meeke above all the men that,were,upon the face 'of the earth: I remember .Ambr: le faith concerning Mofes, That all his great m rI did' not make him fo, honourable as his meekneffe did, and 1hry f fíeme gives the reafon why God would f eak face to face with Mofes rather then with any other, it was becaufe of his extraordinary meekr(le : and the jemes have this tradition, that when Mofes was todye, God came to him and embraced him, and fuckt out his foule, how ever the Tradition is, the foul i very deare to Cod, and if ever God would draw.a foule our fuch a way, it would be the foule of Mofes, and now fee how he dorh in- veil God in a great caufe, ani how,God dorh cake it ; we ;hall.; find in this Chai ter that Atfofer had a great deal of wrong done him,it's laid that Miriam and Aaron Jake againfl M fec,.hecau fee of the Ethiopian woman whom he had marryed, and they Paid, bath the Lord fpoken only by Mofes, &c. and the Lord heard it, faith the Text : They came and wrangled with Al fes, what's. this Mores, as if ivy 11ould fay, whit bath the Lo; d fpokento, Mofes alone ?. ht would take all u»on hin felfe, and he would: lift up himfelfe above others,.I but Mofer is but an ordinary man as others are, and bath marryed an Eth'opian woman, and fo they fpake againPtMöfes, but new you doe not heir that Mo-- fes began to exclaim againfl them,and_rry out a:Tainfl them, no, but the manMofs was very meek? above all the men that were upon the face of the earth : Mark now, how this meekneffe did increü.God in his caufe; Md jhe Lord fpake fuddainly unto MQjs,,
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