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Silentiarius. A brief essay on the holy silence and godly patience, that sad things…
Silentiarius. A brief essay on the holy silence and godly patience, that sad things are to be entertained withal. A sermon at Boston-Lecture, on the death of Mrs. Abigail Willard, and the day before her interment; who expired Septemb. 26. 1721. / By her father. ; Whereunto there is added, a sermon on, the refuge of the distressed, which was preached on the Lord's-Day preceding.Silentiarius. A brief essay on the holy silence and godly patience, that sad things are to be entertained withal. A sermon at Boston-Lecture, on the death of Mrs. Abigail Willard, and the day before her interment; who expired Septemb. 26. 1721. / By her father. ; Whereunto there is added, a sermon on, the refuge of the distressed, which was preached on the Lord's-Day preceeding.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1721
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all Ebullitions of Intemperate Passion; Immoderate Passion; all unseemly vomiting of ••oler, and casting up of bitter G•ll•. Don't speak falsely, no, nor too Hardly and Harshly neither, of those that have wounded you. Let there come nothing from you that shall be outrageous, nothing that shall be revengf••, or […] any Intention to Render Evil for Evils My Friend, Set a watch before thy Mouth, Keep the door of thy Lips. Be advised of this; To suffer many sad Things […] such as have been insufferably Abuse to us, but be after all able to say, Through' the help of a dear SAVIOUR, there has not been all this while so much at One Impatient Word Extorted from me! Verily. This were a Greater Favour of GOD, than there would have been in it, if the sad Things had never been met withal.
all Ebullitions of Intemperate Passion; Immoderate Pas••on; all unseemly vo•iting of ••oler, and casting up of bitter G•ll•. Don't speak falsely, no, nor too Hardly and Harshly neither, of those that have wounded you. Let there come nothing from you that shall be outrageous, nothing that shall be revengf••, or 〈…〉 any Intention to Render Evil for Evils My Friend, Set a watch before thy Mouth, Keep the door of thy Lips. Be advised of this; To suffer many sad Things 〈…〉 such as have been insufferably Abus• to us, but be after all able to say, Thro' the help of a dear SAVIOUR, there has not been all this •hile so much at One Impatient Word Extorted from me! Verily. This were a Greater Favour of GOD, than there would have been in it, if the sad Things had never been met withal.