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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

the Root of all the Morall Vertues Hee that is free from Anger will be free from all manner of Vertue Aristotle makes it a laudable Quality if it haue due restraint and limitation of which sort are Quibus de rebus quibusque hominibus and Quemadmodùm and Quo tempore and Quamdiù For there must bee respect had to the Causes for which and to the Persons towards whom and to the Manner how and to the Season at what time and to the Continuance or lasting of it Dauid in the fourth Psalme hath set downe an inuiolable Rule for it Wherein is to be noted in passage that he that could beare the reproaches of the Vilest Person could giue the excellentest Precept of Anger Be angry and sinne not There are two things required to make it a blamlesse Anger First that the cause bee warrantable least it haue the conception of a wicked Anger Secondly that it be bridled by Reason least it grow into Excesse and degenerate into the Nature of a sinne So then Moses departed not from his former Meekenesse when hee was so farre transported for Gods cause that he brake the two Tables of Stone newly written with the Finger of Gods Hand Phineas had a good Cause when he stood vp to execute iudgement by which he both turned away the Plague and receiued the Praise of Righteousnesse amongst all Generations Elias was a man subiect to like Passions as we are being once transported with an holy Anger that the Children of Israel were generally fallen to serue Baal and himselfe onely left to serue the Lord. Lastly the Zeale was holy which possessed our Sauiour when he scourged the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple Nay whosoeuer is not Angry for God and a good Cause wanteth Phineas his Zeale and Dauids vnoffensiue Anger and Saint Pauls Rod and againe the Zeale of Christ The Zeale of thine house hath eaten me vp Iohn 2. The second is a Remisnesse and Loosenesse in our Functions This Vice doth often creepe into the Meeke mans Manners and yet it is a lesser Vice then extreme Rigour For the Meeke Man as S. Gregory saith doth onely suffer a Vice to steale vpon his good Nature and Vertue but the testy and angry Person doth hotly prosecute a Vice vnder the name and pretence of a Vertue S. Gregory doth grauely obserue the difference of the Apostles Admonitions vnto two Persons participating of one Affection of Charity and yet diuided in their temper and disposition For Timothy who was more violent and hot hee ment to take oft from his edge Reproue rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine But vnto Titus who was of a colder temper he endeuoureth to adde more Spirit These things speake and exhort and rebuke with all Authority And in the Person of Titus is the same Admonition recommended vnto euery Meeke Man in his Function And this shall suffice for the two Vices shrouded vnder the name of Meekenesse the one an Errour in our Nature the other a Deprauation of our Manners The Second generall part was the Dignity or Sublimity of such Persons as are eminent in this Vertue of Meekenesse Blessed There are foure seuerall Kindes as the Schoole-men obserue Gifts Vertues Fruits Beatitudes Gifts are the seuen Gifts of the Holy Ghost and are almost all recited in the 11. of Isai●h vnder the name of Spirits The Spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding The Spirit of counsell and might the Spirit of knowledge and of the feare of the Lord. The Vertues are some Morall and some Theologicall The Morall are Prudence Temperance Iustice Fortitude with other lesser Vertues and the Theologicall are Faith H●pe and Charity The Fruits are in part numbred vnto vs by Saint Paul in the fifth to the Galatians But the fruit of the Spirit is loue ioy peace long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith Meekenesse temperance Lastly the Beatitudes are these eight heere in the fifth Chapter of S Matthew Pouerty in Spirit Mourning Meekenesse Hunger and Thirst after righteousnesse Mercy and so forward First for Gifts they are Habits in the Soule which descend with the Holy Ghost the God of Loue and because they can neuer bee disioyned from Loue therefore they are peculiarly called by that name The Gifts of the Holy Ghost The Vertues are likewise Habits whereof some are conceiued within the Minde of Man through the Light of Reason as the Morall Vertues and some are infused into the Minde as the free Gifts of God namely the Theologicall The Fruits are like their name the Issues and Fruits of the Spirit within vs and haue a double resemblance vnto corporall Fruits first that they bee the last Productions of the strength and vigour of the Spirit Secondly that they be delectable and pleasant to the Soule as fruits are to the taste Lastly the Beatitudes are outward Actions and Practises differing from Vertues as in some other respects so also in this that Vertues are Habits and Powers of the Minde Beatitudes are Practises and Operations of the Vertues This Estate of Meekenesse falls into three of these Orders and is both a Morall Vertue one of the Fruits of the Spirit and a Beatitude First in respect of the Morall Part of it wherewith those noble Spirits amongst the Heathen were endued it is the same with Patience a Morall Vertue only and riseth no higher Secondly as it brings delectation and content to the Soule it is one of the Fruits of the Spirit and reckoned amongst them in that fifth Chapter to the Galatians And in the last place as it is an eminent and perfect Practise of that Vertue in the life of a Christian it is one of the Beatitudes and the Persons excelling in it are pronounced Blessed These Speculations of the Schoolmen may seeme too curious and subtill especially for this Auditory and therefore are to be touched onely in Passage But I may set downe this for Positiue that there are three things required in Meekenesse to make it a Beatitude and to confirme the Professours of it in the State of Blessednesse The first is that it be not an ordinary measure of Meekenesse but an Eminency or Perfection in it Secondly that this Meekenesse be accepted of God Thirdly that it bee in the present an Inchoation or Beginning of future Blessednesse For the first Aristotle aboue the common degree of Vertue exalteth one kinde which is called Heroicall which hath that Eminency that it dignifieth the Professors thereof with the Title of Diuini viri deriuing vnto them some participation of Deity or Diuinity This Meekenesse whereof we speake though it be not an Heroicall Vertue for that is too low a degree for a Christian yet it must be some supereminent degree far aboue the positiue qualified not with one Action or Circumstance but with many and conueying the attribute of Beaci viri or Blessednesse to them that haue it There wee many things concurring in Dauids Meeknesse to make it a Beatitude or Blessednesse The Person of the King