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A81869 Altum silentium or, silence the duty of saints, under every sad providence. An occasional sermon preached after the death of a daughter, by her father: viz. / By John Durant preacher of the gospel in Christ's-Church Canterbury. John Durant, b. 1620. 1659 (1659) Wing D2670; Thomason E2136_1; ESTC R208350 19,134 62

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learn And thus I think the speech of Elihu to Job is to be understood Cap. 33. ult Hearken unto me and hold thy peace and I shall teach thee wisdom You know what the Scripture saith elsewhere in Psal 94. vers 12. Blessed is the man whom thou Lord chastens and teachest him out of thy Law Would you learn How will you learn unless you be silent we must be silent to study to understand the Lord's mind Thus you see what the duty is wherein especially this obediential silence lyeth In the day of affliction we must be silent But how Not as Sotts or sullen Stoicks not as those that are silent mourning in the Grave No but consider Truly in the day of adversity we must consider as it is Eccles 7.14 And amongst many things we must consider How to hold our peace how to be silent so as not to distract our Souls nor to grumble against God nor to hinder our learning in the affliction So to be silent as to compose our spirits and consent to the Lord's dealings and so as to study to hear the Rod and who hath appoynted it to learn our lesson in the school of affliction This is our duty and thus did Aaron here I have now opened the point and our practice What it must be Let me now inforce and establish it by Arguments Why this must be To come to it 2. Why must this be I shall give you the reasons of the Point very briefly My beloved though the Lord might deal with you and me upon term's of supream Majesty and bid us do a thing without a reason yet God bath laid no command's but there 's the highest Reason for them I 'le offer you three head 's of reason why this is our duty let the providence be never so sharp If we do but soberly consider a little with our selves even under the saddest providence Either 1. God or 2. Our selves or 3. Saran we may from each of these particulars see and be satisfied in the ground of this duty of silence I shall be short in opening but do you consider it by your selves more at large 1. Consider God Saies David in Psal 29.9 I held my peace because 't was Thou didst it He hath done it what shall I say was Hezekiah's saying Affliction doth not arise out of the dust Whatever befalls thee let the Tool be what it will it ' God that strikes Truly my brethren this is a large head of reason God doth it Why He may do whatsoever he will both in heaven and earth God doth it He is wise and just and holy and honourable God doth it pointing at the supream diety silences all Let all flesh be silent before the Lord. But I'●e carry the reason onely upon one foot and that is this You cannot testifie your subjection to a God if you be not silent at what he doth You chastise your children you will not have them prate and take on while you are chastising Whenever God afflicts he doth but chastise and wilt thou reverence an earthly Father and not reverence the Father of Spirits Observe how the Apostle carries on this argument Heb. 12.9 Saith he we have had Fathers of our flesh which corrected us we gave them reverence shal we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of Spirits and live A fine child a sweeet child reverences a Parent it speak's quietly under every dealing Do you deal thus with men and will not you deal so with God My brethren I said even now that this is a reverential silence and we can't shew our subjection unto God if under every providence we be not silent Verily our silence is our reverence To take on and fret to groan and grumble to be as a wilde bull in the net as the Scripture phrase is to roar and to bellow It is to dishonour God If we will acknowledge Him to be as he is a God we must be still as it is Psal 48. last In the day of adversity they do not consider but forget God who are not silent Nay men forget themselves who under affliction in the sense opened do not hold their peace For 2. Will you consider yuur selves and you will see there is reason you should be silent My brethren Self-knowledge in most points hath abundance in it to carry us through all lessons if ye do not hold your peace you will hurt your selv's To be silent is good for Self and self-love is a good motive You will say What good is it for me to be silent it is an case to take on I answer that which is easie is not alwayes best 1. For first If you be not silent you will never exercise any grace If a man's hand shake he will not write well when the man talk's he can't study well So except we be silent we cannot shew any grace no grace of faith no grace of patience no grace of humility All these graces are exercised and appear eminently in an obediential silence He that believeth speaks not much He that is patient holds his peace And the humble soul in every affliction lies in the dust submissively silent You forget your selves Oh Saints as to the exercise of these graces if with Aaron you do not hold your peace Besides consider 2. If you speak you will sin and will you afflict your selves by speaking Now my brethren mark it Under affliction we are apt to speak more sinfully and God observes it You have a great evidence of a good man who in the way of his affliction spake sinfully and the Lord took notice of it in Jer. 45.3 Thou didst say wo is me now for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow I fainted in my sighing and I find no rest here is the passionate speech of a man under affliction I remember a very fine observation of Dr. Stoughton long ago from this very passage saith he It is very facile very easy but not free to offend in word's Thou didst say saith the Lord to Baruch We are apt to say and forget what we say in sorrow But saith God Thou didst say thus or thus The Lord minds our sinful sad words It is good therefore to hold our peace mark that Thou didst say c. Oh soul the Lord observes all our words in a day of affliction and because we are apt to forget our selves to speak sin in a passion certainly if we consider our selves we shall hold our peace Mind what David saies I said I 'le take heed to my wayes that I sin not with my tongue Psal 39.1 If you consider your selves you 'l be silent for if you speak much in the multitude of speech there will be sin and that is to be avoided especially under suffering But 3. You will but increase your trouble at least you will not decrease it that way Sorrow hath bin compared to a great flood and if you draw up the hatch it will run Unlesse we hold our