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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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Thirdly. AN Holy silence must Restrain all Impatient Jealousies, about the Faithfulness and Compassion of a Glorious GOD; when sad things are done unto us. The Infliction of sad things upon us, will make a time of Temptations with us: Temptations to grow Jealous of what the Dispensations of GOD are tending to. 'Tis a Dark time and the Hour and Power of Darkness fall upon us. When the Night arrives, then the Lions •ore. Our sad things bring Temptations with ⟨p. 18⟩them; Temptations to say, I shall one day perish by the hand of this Misery; 'twill be an undoing Misery. It will be too h•rd for me! Temptations to say, GOD counts me for His Enemy; I now suffer from Him the strokes of an Enemy; 'tis n•t my Salvation, but my Destruction that is now to be looked for! Temptations to forget, that our sad things are all ordered by a SAVIOUR sitting on the Throne of GOD, and aiming at the Cure of all that is Irregular in us, and at the Restoring of GOD unto His Throne in our Souls, and at the preparing of us for the Spiritual Blessings of the Heavenly Places. If we are Tempted in and from our sad things to say, what will imply our Forgetting of such things as these, we ought now to silence these Jealousies. Instead of saying as we are Tempted now to say, All these things are against me, let us with an Holy silence keep unto that Conclusion; Gen. L. 20. GOD has meant it unto Good.
Thirdly. AN Holy silence must Restrain all Impatient Jealousies, about the Faithfulness and Compossion of a Glorious GOD; when sad things are done unto us. The Infliction of sad things upon us, will make a time of Temptations with us: Temptations to grow Jealous of what the Dispensations of GOD are tending to. 'Tis a Dark time and the Hour and Power of Darkness fall upon us. When the Night arrives, then the Lions •ore. Our sad things bring Temptations with ⟨p. 18⟩them; Temptations to say, I shall one day perish by the hand of this Misery; 'twill be an undoing Misery. It will be too h•rd for me! Temptations to say, GOD counts me for His Enemy; I now suffer from Him the strokes of an Enemy; 'tis nt my Salvation, but my Destruction that is now to be looked for! Temptations to forget, that our sad things are all ordered by a SAVIOUR sitting on the Throne of GOD, and aiming at the Cure of all that is Irregular in us, and at the Restoring of GOD unto His Throne in our Souls, and at the preparing of us for the Spiritual Blessings of the Heavenly Places. If we are Tempted in and from our sad things to say, what will imply our Forgetting of such things as these, we ought now to silence these Jealousies. Instead of saying as we are Tempted now to say, All these things are against me, let us with an Holy silence keep unto that Conclusion;