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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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HAVING Renewed the Consent of her Soul, over and over again, unto the Gracious proposal made by her SAVIOUR, for her Espousal to Him; and being asked, whether she desired that her SAVIOUR would make her Holy as well as Righteous, and so fill her Soul with the Love of GOD, that GOD should be forever Dwelling and Reigning there, she did with a Raised, and a more than common Ardour, make this Answer to it; ⟨p. 33⟩Oh! more than Life it self! That Favour of GOD is better than Life!
HAVING Renewed the Consent of her Soul, over and over again, unto the Gracious proposal made by her SAVIOUR, for her Espousal to Him; and being asked, whether she desired that her SAVIOUR would make her Holy as well as Righteous, and so fill her Soul with the Love of GOD, that GOD should be forever Dwelling and Reigning there, she did with a Raised, and a more than common Ardor, make this Answer to it; ⟨p. 33⟩Oh! more than Life it self! That Favour of GOD is better than Life!
AS her End approached, she had her Good Hope through' Grace growing upon her. And the very last Thing she spoke to me, was with Repetition to assure me, That her SAVIOUR had given her a Comfortable persuasion of His Receiving her to the Glory of GOD.
AS her End approached, she had her Good Hope thro' Grace growing upon her. And the very last Thing she spoke to me, was with Repetition to assure me, That her SAVIOUR had given her a Comfortable perswasion of His Receiving her to the Glory of GOD.
BUT she left with me her Desires, That I would go on to inculcate upon the Young People in the Place, that Early Piety, wherein (as All, and even the most Watchful and Fruitful Children of GOD always declare, when they come to dye) her poor Endeavours to Walk with GOD, she said, had Nothing in them to be Repented of, but that they had been so poor, and that she had no more abounded in them.