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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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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.
SHE had not the Raptures of a Joyful Assurance, which some that had been once Related to her, Enjoyed in their ⟨p. 32⟩Dying Hours and Agonies. Tho' she said, That in the Religion of the Closet, she had found the Spirit of GOD making His Gracious Visits to her Soul, with some Comfortable Assurances of His Love; Yet she said, That she was not now without some Distress upon her Mind; complaining, that the Affairs of this World had so Enfeebled her Walk with GOD, as to impair the Light of His Countenance upon her. But still she kept in the strains and at the Acts, of that Substantial PIETY, which lies in Soul a groaning after a Deliverance from Indwelling Sin, and Longing after a Conformity to GOD, and laying hold on a SAVIOUR, to fulfil all the Good Pleasure of His Goodness.
SHE had not the Raptures of a Joyful Assurance, which some that had been once Related to her, Enjoy'd in their ⟨p. 32⟩Dying Hours and Agonies. Tho' she said, That in the Religion of the Closet, she had found the Spirit of GOD making His Gracious Visits to her Soul, with some Comfortable Assurances of His Love; Yet she said, That she was not now without some Distress upon her Mind; complaining, that the Affairs of this World had so Enfeebled her Walk with GOD, as to impair the Light of His Countenance upon her. But still she kept in the strains and at the Acts, of that Substantial PIETY, which lies in Soul a groaning after a Deliverance from Indwelling Sin, and Longing after a Conformity to GOD, and laying hold on a SAVIOUR, to fulfil all the Good Pleasure of His Goodness.