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A39578	A love-token for mourners teaching spiritual dumbness and submission under Gods smarting rod : in two funeral sermons / by Samuel Fisher M.A., late preacher at Brides London, now at Thornton in Cheshire ; unto which is added, An antidote against the fear of death, being the meditations of the same author in a time and place of great mortality.	Fisher, Samuel, 1616 or 17-1681.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1059B; ESTC R42024	52,647	250

so perfectly learned in this lesson of holy ●ilence and humble submission and hast thy heart at that command that thou canst presently silence any distempered motion in the springing of it without any more ado I perswade thee not to bestow either cost or pains upon this little piece because it on●ly treats of that which it seems thou hast no need of and indeed contains nothing in it of that Subject but what is plain and common But if thou be as I am a man subject to like passions with other poor Saints that hath need of all the helps that may be to keep down unruly affections when God strikes hard the Rod smarts and the flesh bleeds And let me adde if thou be willing to learn at a petty School I hope I may say thou maist finde that which may be worth as much as thy cost in buying or pains in reading will amount to If thou do get any good by this poor traveller which is the passionate desire of the Author bestow thy prayers upon him that dares not send out this paper without prayers for it and thee viz. that there may be a blessing in it and that thou maiest finde it with which I leave thee and desire to be whiles I am Thornton Sept. 25. 1654. Thine desirous to offer up fervent prayers for thine everlasting good S. F. Spirituall SUBMISSION PSAL. 39. 9. I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it THis Psalme as appears by the Title had David for the subordinate Author of it Him being a man to his heart he did imploy principally to be the Holy Ghosts Penman to write this excellent piece of Scripture this Book of Psalms It is directed to Jeduthun who was one of the three Praefects or Masters of Musick appointed and ordered by David for the guiding of Song in the House of the Lord 1 Chron. 25. 1 6 7. It was penned in Meeter for it is Mizmor of David a Psalm of David which notes Sermonem concisum ab omni verborum aut syllabarum superfluitate resectum a short speech that hath all superfluity of words or syllables lopped and pared off Nor is it only bound up by the measure and number of feet Quemadmodum poëtae carmina componunt but by the number of Syllables that it may be rightly disposed and fit for Song At what time and upon what occasion this Psalm was written is in the judgement of the Learned very uncertain Those that venture farthest give us but their conjectures and therefore I shall not follow them unless they had a Lanthorn Leaving suppositions that it might referre to Sauls persecution to Amnons Incest to Absolons murther first or treason after or to any grievous sicknesse occasioned by his g●ief upon any or all of these It is certain David notwithstanding his love to God and Gods to him was exercised with ●ariety of great and sore troubles with afflictions repeated and of long continuance And to such a season wherein he was thus exercised it appears by the scope and whole contexture of the Song he doth referre And further it is as clear from the Psalm it self that those afflictions which carried his eye to them in the writing of this were such and filled with so much bitterness that he had much ado to bridle his passion nay though he did with strong resolutions as with a bridle or muzrole constrain his lips yet by reason of the pressing weight of his sorrows his passion like fire shut up did eat out its way and transport him beyond the limits of religious sobriety This I look upon and therein I follow that great and sound Expositor who erres as seldom as most do in giving the sense of Scripture M r Calvin as the principall scope of the Psalm to make known to the Church of God what David had the sad experience of viz. the great strength and power of passion under the sharpnesse and bitternesse of affliction The Psalm consists of two parts The first Exegeticall or Narrative The second Eucticall or Precative A Narration and a prayer take up the whole In the former you have the Prophets disease laid open In the later the means of cure or remedy applied That which he declares in the first part was 1. That he was sensible of his passion under the sense of his affliction viz. that he had need of a bridle when God used a spur This is fairly implied v. 1. 2. His resolution to keep under his passion when he felt it began to stirre I said I will take heed I will keep my mouth as with a bridle or mousell Or as the Greek with a ward As if he had said I set down this constant resolut●on to mousell and lock up my lips that I might not give my tongue leave to break out into any impatient or unbeseeming speech c. By this is noted the untamednesse of the tongue which must by force and watchfulnesse be restrained or else will get out of doors and kindle fire 3. The successe of this resolution and his endeavours for a time the suppression of his passionate distemper v. 2. I was dumb with silence I held my peace c. 4. The power and prevalency of his passion afterwards Dolor meus turbatus est incaluit cor meum In meditatione mea exarsit ignis loquutus sum lingua my grief was stirred my heart waxed hot within me whiles I was musing the fire burned I spake with my tongue Though David had with great constancy endeavoured to subdue and keep under the risings of his heart yet he tels us the fire was but smothered not quenched his passions were like fire suppressed which makes its way by degrees and then breaks out with greater violence Calvins note upon this is By how much any man sets himself more diligently to bring his heart to obedience and strives to be patient under his trials by so much the more many times is he vexed with his passions and he gives the reason because in such a case Satan puts forth his utmost to oppose him in his honest endeavours who in the mean time lets them alone and doth not trouble them whom he findes senselesse and careless under the hand of God He addes an incouraging perswasive to those that are troubled with such inordinate inflammations to remember David least we faint in our mindes and the experience of our weakness should betray our hopes In the verses following he gives an account of the language which he uttered when his passions got vent to v. 7. which though they carry truth in them and are an excellent description of the vanity of mans life yet as they were uttered and timed do clearly argue by the context that he was transported vitioso excessu And therefore saith my former Author Non sine stomacho indignatione dicit Notum fac mihi Iehovah finem meum c. It was not without stomack and passion that he saith Lord