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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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KNOW it first; That you have such Loads lying upon you, as will sink you into Eternal Wretchedness, if they be not seasonably taken off. Your Sins, your Sins, are such mountainous Loads. In your Natural State, what are you, but a People laden with Iniquity! The Guilt which is lying upon you, or a being bound over to suffer the Punishment of Sin: 'Tis a Load enough to break the back of an Angel. Ah! Were you not horribly Dead in Sin, you would cry out; as Psal. XXXVIII. 4. My Iniquities are as an heavy Burden, they are too heavy for me. And the Rule of Sin reigning ⟨p. 26⟩over you, how full of Oppression is it! Sin puts a most Oppressive Drudgery on the Sinful Children of Men. Obedience to Sin, 'tis a L•ad, and a Yoke that cannot be born. Ah, Did you feel it, as it is, you would cry out; Rom. VII. 24. O wretched one that I a•, who shall deliver me! Sinners, That you were but sensible of the •a•s that are upon you! Loads that are pushing of you to Death!
BUT Know it, Secondly; That a Glorious CHRIST has Undertaken to take off the Loads, of the Sinners that Sigh and Seek unto Him. Indeed, there was a Day wherein the Great GOD laid upon Him the Iniquities of us all. In that black Day we read, Isai. LIII. 7. He was oppressed. When our SAVIOUR had the Load of our Sin lying upon Him, and was making Satisfaction for our Sin, He cried out, I am oppressed, I am sore broken. What an Heaviness was there then upon Him! All this was to Save us out of our Oppression; It was to pay a Ransom for us! And if we will now Personally Apply our selves unto this Glorious CHRIST we shall have Him for our SAVIOUR. The Bond of our Iniquity, will ⟨p. 27⟩