2.16 Rules and helps to Chr f, ian mee(Znefe. would fet a Cheep or Iamb before them, and it would be a meanes to quiet them ; when we are in apailion in a mad rage let us but fer that meeke Lambe the Lord Jet-us-before us, and that will be a means to quiet us ; eo you have it in i Pet. 2. There the Apofile makes efe of the example of Chrill ro keep our fpirits in a quiet anr_i nleeke way, For ( faith he ) hereunto were ye called, that_ is, to rake patiently what wrongs were of- fered t o us, becaufe (ir,ft alf fief cred for as, leaving us an ex- ample that youlhou!d follow his flops, who drd no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled reviled not :.- gaine, when he fx f cored he threatned not, but committed himfelfe to him that judgeth righteiufly : Readbut this Text,and fet but this examyle of Jefus C .hrilt.before you,and it will be a ipecial pieanes to quiet your piiits. And fo I should have fet before you the example of the Saints, of Abraham, of Da rid, of Stephen, of Paul, and others; but Ile only name one or two others. I remember the example of Calvin toward Luther is very famous, and elpecially it con - cerns Minillers;Though there were a great deale of difference in judgment and wayes ; Luther was of a hot and fiery fa is ir, and Calvin more tender, and Calvin had fuch a fpeech con- cerning Lather, well faith he, Let Luther call me Devil!, call me what he will, yet l will acknoirledge Lurhet to be the Setvart of Tefus Chrifi, and one whom Chrre doth ufe as an inflrimeut or a g- rear deale of good. Here was a sweet and quiet fpirit in Cal- vin, that was a man fo inftremenrall for God : There's no fuch way taheape coales of fire upon the heads of rhofe that do oi,- pofe us,as to carry our felves meekly and gently towards them, Therefore for the clofe ofall, I befeech you lay up there roles that you have heard. And let this one be 'added more: Fifreenrhly, Take heed of the nextTemptation, if fo be that you would exercife this grace of meeknefl'e, though you forget other rules, yet lay up this, take heed I fay of the next tempration,goe away but with this retolution , The Lord bath made me to heare of the ex- cellency of the grace óf ineeknetfe, how it `is commended by Chrift ;'and that it hath fuch excell°nt promises; and . ha hath thawne
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