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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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IF I should sp•ak of the Singular Goodness and Sweetness in her Temper, which rendered her Universally Beloved, or of that E•rly• Piety, which most of all bespoke, I will not say, the Praises for her which belong to the Woman that fear• the Lord, but the Praises of Him who called her out of Darkness into His Marvellous Light: I might fall into the Indecency of speaking, what might be more properly published by another.
IF I should sp•ak of the Singular Goodness and Sweetness in her Temper, which rendred her Universally Beloved, or of that E•rly• Piety, which most of all bespoke, I will not say, the Praises for her which belong to the Woman that fear• the Lord, but the Praises of Him who called her out of Darkness into His Marvellous Light: I might fall into the Indecency of speaking, what might be more properly published by another.
IT will be no Trespass upon the silence proper for me, to mention a Circumstance of her Death, which may serve the Cause of that Early Piety, that she was an Instance of.
IT will be no Tresp•ss upon the silence proper for me, to mention a Circumstance of her Death, which may serve the Cause of that Early Piety, that she was an Instance of.
SHE Entertained the Approaches of her Death, with a most humble Resignation to the Will of her Glorious LORD, and Acquiescence in it: Tho' not without the Remainders of that Fear, that, she said, had all her Life held her in Bondage.