SERMON XX.

FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER III. VERSE IV.

The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is, in the sight of God, of a great price.

THE meekness of the gospel has been so far mistaken by one sect of Christians, that they have erroneously interpreted it to mean, passive submission to violence and injury; a principle which operates as an incitement to many bad passions, by leaving to them their indisputed reward, and urges us to abandon those salutary means of defence, implanted by nature for the encouragement