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A10491 A sermon of meekenesse preached at the Spittle vpon Easter Tuesday, M.D.C.XXIII. By William Rawley, Doctor of Diuinity. Rawley, William, 1588?-1667. 1623 (1623) STC 20767; ESTC S105187 19,945 60

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was sacred not to he violated by any lewd Reuiler The Rayler was his Subiect and had his life in the Kings hand His passage at that time warlike not to be braued by any bold affront But the chiefe thing was his humble Confession of his sins Let him curse for the Lord hath bidden him And his patient expecting a Recompence at Gods hands It may be that the Lord will looke on mine afflictions and will requite good for his cursing this day And surely the Meekenesse of Saint Steuen was no lesse then a Beatitude imitating the Meekenesse of Christ both in suffering Death patiently and in offring vp his last Praiers for his Persecutors And the Effect of his Praiers was such that hee obtained a great Enemy to the Church and one of the hottest in his persecution to be afterwards a Valiant Champion for Christ This Meekenesse must proceed from a double Root Humility which is the Exaltation of all Vertues and Charity Charity beareth all things 1 Cor. 13. The second Property required to a Beatitude is that it must bee accepted of God The Heathen though they were famous in this and other Vertues yet their Meekenesse was not accepted of God And as the reason is knowne out of Saint Paul H●b 11. Without faith it is impossible to please God So to shew when it comes in a forme pleasing vnto him Ecclesiastes hath ioyned them both toge●her He hath pleasure in faith and Meekenesse The singular Meekenesse of Moses was of this Kinde of whom we shall read from Gods owne testimony that if a Prophet had any ordinary Reuelation ●rom the Lord the Lord did appeare vnto him in a Vision or a Dreame But my seruant Moses is not so for he was admitted vnto the familiar Conference and Bosome Counsells of the Lord And the cause of this high fauour and grace which hee had with God as Dionysius obserueth it was the exceeding measure of his Meekenesse Dauid was declared to be A man after Gods owne heart and it seemes that he was accepted for his Meekenesse when in making Intercession to God he men●ions this Vertue onely Memento Domine Dauid omnis mansuetudinis eius Lord remember Dauid and all his Meekenesse So I finde it in the Latine translation though the English reads it And all his Afflictions The third Property required to a Beatitude is that it must be in the present an Inchoation or Beginning of future Blessednesse Beatitude is properly the last End of the life of man vnto which all our Actions are directed that wee may obtaine it If it be an apparant Beatitude onely it is that of the Philosophers but the true Beatitude is onely of Christians These Vertues are called Beatitudes not because they are the eternall Rewards which wee shall enioy after this life but because they are Estates of life walking in the Lawes and fauour of God and so farre assured of future Happinesse as Hope can possesse vs of it And hope is so firme that by it wee partake of things future as if they were now reall and present By hope we are saued saith the Apostle Rom. 8 speaking in a stile as if we did at the present enioy it Now for Meeknesse it is an Estate as firmely possessing Heauenly Happinesse as any of the rest The meeke mans prayers are pleasing vnto God Those that bee meeke will hee teach his wayes The Meeke Man is apt and vacant for Heauenly Contemplation and lastly He will beautifie the Meeke with Saluation These three things are required to a Beatitude First that it be a Vertue eminent in his kinde Secondly that it be accepted of God Thirdly that it bee a beginning of future Happinesse The last generall part of my Text is the Reward For they shall inherit the earth The Earth which is implyed in this Reward may be double First this transitory Earth of which it is said Heauen and Earth shall passe away on which the Meeke and the Mighty are mixed both together and possesse it without distinction Secondly that immutable and eternall Inheritance of which it is said There shall be a new Heauen and a new Earth in which the Meeke shall haue the sole possession of the Earth without disturbance Neither doe I see but that the promise made by our Sauiour Christ vnto the Meeke may haue this double respect For it is a certaine Rule that is obserued by Saint Chrysostome The promises of God doe not so assure vs of our future Happinesse that they exclude vs from a temporall Blessing But seeke yee first the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all these things shall be added vnto you neither doe they so reach vnto vs a temporall Blessing but that the Latitude of his promise doth extend to a future In which sense Saint Paul writes to Timothy But Godlinesse is profitable vnto all things hauing the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come To say a little of each First then it is without Question that it may bee meant of this present Earth The Apostles though they had profited in Christ aboue the common Multitude notwithstanding they were at this time and continued yet Carnall Diuerse Instances conuince them thereof afterward in which they vnderstood many things that were spoken of Christ carnally And our Sauiour Christ was well acquainted how to draw and allure Carnall Mindes partly and at the first by temporall Promises As for that Psalme from whence this text is transferred it is certaine by the whole phrase thereof that it strikes vpon a temporall inheritance Neither is this without Parallel in most of the Texts of the old Testament whenas in the Decalogue or summe of the Morall Law there is but one promise and that of a temporall Blessing granted vnto those that doe beare due Honour to their Parents Nor yet without Example seeing that of the great Multitude which came forth out of Egypt the Murmurers were all cut off in the passage and the Meeke onely suffered to enter into the Land of Canaan As for that Interpretation of Saint Bernard that by the earth are implyed our Earthly Bodies whereof the Meeke only haue quiet possession in as much as in them their Affections and Passions are subiect vnto Reason it is no idle conceit and it agreeth also with a Temporall Reward For the second It is also certaine that the Reward which is here promised by our Sauiour doth reach to a better Earth of which Dauid speaketh in the 27. Psalme Vnlesse I had beleeued to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the liuing The Earth here is the Land of the Dying either of those which are dead in their sinnes or poasting hastily to the Coasts of Death but the other Earth whereof Dauid speaketh is the Land of the Liuing and shall be the possession of those who are the Inheriters of Life and Immortality Besides this Text is originally a Verse of the 37. Psalme and in that place