Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today.

I thought today I was going to do something very different, and that is I'm going to

give you a book plug in case you would like one. It's called The Quest for Meakness and

Quietness of Spirit by Matthew Henry, published in 1698. And from time to time someone asked

me for a book recommendation for handling anger, this is it. His text in this is of course

1 Peter 3, 4, and the translation he cites is this. Even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,

which is in the side of God a great price. My new King James version reads,

rather let it be the hidden person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet

spirit, which is very precious in the side of God. So his scripture says meek and quiet,

our mind says gentle quiet, we're just going to go with his which is meek and quiet.

Right at the outset, Matthew Henry not only applies this verse to women of course,

because the context of the verses first Peter, but he applies it also to Christians in general,

both men and women, because he knows and we know we all need meekness and quietness.

In true Puritan fashion, he divides the book into three parts, the nature of meekness and quietness

of spirit, the excellency of meekness and quietness of spirit, and then the application.

One of the reasons I love reading Puritans is because they always have a section on application.

And so that's what we need, isn't it? Not just theories, but we need to have application,

we've got to do that. So I'm going to wet your appetite with a few of his quotations and just give

you kind of an overview of the book. He defines meekness as easiness of spirit.

When we're meek toward God, it is evidenced by that easy and quiet submission of the soul

to God. It is what he calls the silent submission of the soul to the word of God.

So in other words, as women of the word, we read it and we can form ourselves to it. We submit ourselves

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