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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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Secondly. THERE is an Holy silence with regard unto the Glorious GOD, much more to be maintained, when sad ⟨p. 14⟩Things are met withal. Being satisfied of this; Lord, Thou art the Doer of all! All Expressions of Impatience, are from this Moment forbidden unto us. Be sure we shall Express too much Impatience, if our sad Things cause us to fall into Wishes to have our Death hastened upon us. A Job tired with sad Things, may cry out, O thus GOD would grant me the Thing that I long for! Even that it would please GOD to destroy me; that He would let loose His Hand, and cut me off! A •ired Elias may Wish, O Lord, Take away my Life! A tired Jonah may Wish, O Lord, I beseech thee, take my Life from me. But they spoke too much. It would have been better for them to have beld their Peace, been Dumb, and not so have opened their Mouths. Let all such Rash Wishes of a Soul out of Breath under the L•ads lying upon it, be Suppressed. There is a Faulty Impatience in them. Nor is this all the Caution to be inculcated. The Holy silence must be yet further extended. It must lay a Restraint upon all the Complaints which may express any Impatience under the sad Things we meet withal. There ⟨p. 15⟩must not pass from us, the least Whisper of any thing, that shall not breath a sweet Submission to, a sweet Acquiescence, in, the Will of GOD, sending sad Things upon us. Our Holy silence is to be kept in such Things as these.
Secondly. THERE is an Holy silence with regard unto the Glorious GOD, much more to be maintained, when sad ⟨p. 14⟩Things are met withal. Being satisfied of this; Lord, Thou art the Doer of all! All Expressions of Impatience, are from this Moment forbidden unto us. Be sure we shall Express too much Impatience, if our sad Things cause us to fall into Wishes to have our Death hastened upon us. A Job tired with sad Things, may cry out, O thus GOD would grant me the Thing that I long for! Even that it would please GOD to destroy me; that He would let loose His Hand, and cut me off! A •ired Elies may Wish, O Lord, Take away my Life! A tired Jonas may Wish, O Lord, I beseech thee, take my Life from me. But they spoke too much. It would have been better for them to have beld their Peace, been Dumb, and not so have opened their Mouths. Let all such Rash Wishes of a Soul out of Breath under the Lads lying upon it, be Suppressed. There is a Faulty Impatience in them. Nor is this all the Caution to be inculcated. The Holy silence must be yet further extended. It must lay a Restraint upon all the Complaints which may express any Impatience under the sad Things we meet withal. There