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A44931 A practical discourse of silence and submission shewing that good men should possess their souls in patience under the severest providences : and particularly in the loss of dear relations : preached at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark / by William Hughes ... Hughes, William, b. 1624 or 5. 1694 (1694) Wing H3345; ESTC R2599 45,851 98

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A Practical DISCOURSE OF Silence and Submission SHEWING That Good MEN SHOULD Possess their Souls in PATIENCE UNDER THE Severest Providences And particularly In the Loss of Dear Relations Preached at St. Thomas's Hospital Southwark By WILLIAM HVGHES Hospitaler there Shall we receive Good at the hand of God and shall we not receive Evil Job 2.20 Pessimi est Debitoris Creditore faceri convitium Sen. de Cons ad Mart. c. 10. LONDON Printed by W. Onely for I. Salusbury at the Rising-Sun in Cornhil 1694. To the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Clayton Kt. Alderman of the City of London AND President of St. Thomas's Hospital in Southwark To the Worshipful James Reading Esq Treasurer of the said Hospital AND To the rest of the Right Worshipful Worshipful and Worthy Governours of the same Right Worshipful c. THE Divine Preacher tells us 'T is better to go the House of Mourning than to the House of Feasting And there is indeed great reason for his saying so 'T is something that this latter place commonly leaves Men Vainer than it finds them But 't is a weighty one that he is express in the former That is the end of all Men and the living will lay it to heart It shews What all must come to therefore the need of being prepared accordingly Now that my Lot is fallen in a great Family of greater Sorrows altho it be your greatest Care to turn those into the Speediest Joys is no Absurdity to affirm I 'm sure besides the sad Calamities of our Domesticks the Experience of my small Apartment hath for these two Years past by frequent and grievous Sickness and by Death lately met with loud Knels of Heaviness Nor may we doubt but that many of your selves some time or other have heard such doleful Lessons Nay who can tell how soon those yet exempted may taste of the same Bitter Cup and perhaps drink deeper of it So that a Discourse adapted to such Circumstances cannot be unseasonable Especially if it respect Preventing Supporting Delivering thence and making wise Improvement thereof All which Advantages these Papers aim at and it is hoped do not utterly miss their Mark Unto your Worships the Essay such as 't is is most humbly dedicated as to It 's Author's Patrons and most worthy of more Honour than is within his reach to pay you To forbear tho not forget your kind Respect unto Himself nor to insist upon the most Signal but Secret Charities of several of you unto many hundred Pounds which tho you would not have your left hand know what your right hand did could not be quite concealed indeed such Rare Examples ought not Your Joint Compassion and Tender Care of the Many Poor in this Great Hospital proclaim your Merit hardly Imitable I 'm sure truly Admirable For besides your Constant Provision of the Best Food and Physick and Surgery that you can get with very meet both Firing Lodging and Attendance you are now New-building of their House and at the vast Expence of many Thousand Pounds Whereby at once you prevent their being Buried Alive in the Ruins of an Old-decayed-Place and likewise provide for Better-Preserving Life and Sooner-Restoring Health unto them by a far more Airy Sweet and Pleasant Dwelling than before they had or ever could have hoped for But from Your Selves That the God of Mercy who first inclined you may preserve and prosper you to the finishing of this Earthly Tabernacle for his Poor and in due season Reward you with an Habitation not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens is the Prayer of Right Worshipful c. Your very Hamble Servant W. Hughes Hospitaler To my Beloved Friends THE Officers and Patients OF St. Thomas's Hospital in Southwark Beloved Friends THE Calamities of this House in general and the particular Distresses of most of us call aloud upon us to seek a Refuge from the Storm at least to get some Shelter till it be over My hopes are that these Sermons will somewhat Contribute to those Ends if due Regard be had unto them And tho' mine own Afflictions were their Midwife yet being thus brought forth they may be Vseful unto Others also I should be very glad to do you Good from the Press notwithstanding so many of you slight my Service from the Pew and Pulpit For to my Grief I speak it 't is very doubtful whether a fifth Part of you that can be constant at the Chappel 'T was altogether otherwise in the former Years of my Ministry here And I am sure my Pains are nothing abated but my Judgment somewhat improved since But then indeed we had the Happiness of a Steward who made Conscience of the Duty of his Place and did not only duly come himself but brought Others with him and punished those who causelessly absented And I am fully of Opinion that True Religion was as thriving then among as as ever is hath been since Do not our Publick Orders tell all Officers here as well as Patients that without reasonable Excuse they mst be constant at the Publick Worship And doth not every Officer Enter on his Place upon those Terms Can it be Conscience then to take the Wages and not do the Work Will not That say let alone the Salary or buckle to the Service How many notwithstanding are never present So vain a Coyness with some and vile Prophaness with others hath of late times prevailed among us Were there just Quarrel at the Publick Prayers as I know no Person with us that hath any or justly can have must Sermons suffer for that however Hath Any a Grudge against the Minister Surely a Wise Man will not sullenly leave his Food because the Cook hath angred him But if the Bread of Life be given you here and you refuse it is not the Giver more contemned than he that brings it Beware of their most heavy Guilt whose Souls they said loathed that light Bread For that was spoken against God as well as Moses Num. 21.5 Tho you are told expresly to Despise or not to Hear which are both One a Gospel-Minister is serving both the Son and Father too at the self-same rate Luke 10.16 If a very few can plead Their Relations else-where in their own Defence Why Without medling with the Merits of the Cause and beside what was said about twenty lines before Is not the Plea as good to justifie an hungry Man's Refusal of wholesome Food at his loving Neighbour's because forsooth it was not set upon his own Table where he did use to Eat Let us be faithful to our Souls Is not the want of Spiritual Appetite our great Distemper Did we hunger thirst and long for God would we be so Coy as to meet him only where we please and when ourselves think sitting Surely we would be glad at any place and as often as we could to enjoy his blessed Company in his holy Ordinances We should flock as Doves to our Windows and the Feet of them that bring glad