31? 1teciouo Sai>tt): And what made him fo meek we may gather from his own words, Nullum hominem tantum fuJtineré rnalorurn,quantum contumeliarum Deus; No man bearsfo many evils as God cloth contume- Tics. And if we will be followers of God we mull be meek ; and as a further motive here- unto, Faith looks unto Chrifi, in .whom Meek- nefs is exemplified in our own Nature,that we may not fay, flefh and blood cannot be fo, un- der reproaches ,injuries,contraditions, bloody fufferings, He mac as a lamb, not opening his mouth ; when be was reviled he reviled not again, when he fuffered, be threatned not, i Pet. 2. 23. And the Believer mull follow him, and the ra- ther becaufe he bath a fpirit of Meeknefs from him to do fo. Such a fpirit (hewed it felt in Beza, who, when in a Difpute about the Eu- charift, the Jefuits called him and his Col- leagues Foxes and Serpents, only replied, Nos non magic credimus gctám Tranftbftczntiationem; We believe it as much as we do Tranfubflantiati- on. Again, this Grace is much advanced by Refletions: without Faith a man is a ftranger at home, and knows every thing better than his own Heart, as St. Bernard faith of Petrus Abailardus, He knew every thing better than bimre f-, but where Faith is, there is the true 1'vW9z geccvz ®v , then a Man looks inwardly in- to his own Heart, and there finds filch a black Heft of Corruptions, that upon reproaches and injuries offered he is ready to commune with himfelf and fay, Are not filch Sins with me, 'Oven with me, at leafl ftminally, if not át`ù- alto ?
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