Stand Still, Title page – Author to friends
STAND STILL OR, A bridle for the Times.
A Discourse tending to Still the Murmuring, to Settle the Wavering, to Stay the Wandring, to Strengthen the Fainting.
As it was delivered to the Church of GOD at Great YARMOUTH, Anno 1643.
By JOHN BRINSLEY, Minister of the Word there. And now published as a proper Antidote against the present Epidemicall Distempers of the Times.
EXOD. 14.13.
Feare yee not, [Stand-still] and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew unto you this day.
LONDON: Printed for William Frankling, and are to be sold at his Shop next the George in Norwich. 1647.
TO MY EVER HONOURED AND WORTHY FRIENDS The Baliffes, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the Towne of great YARRMOUTH.
(Much'esteemed in the Lord)
THese Meditations, A…u. 1643.when first delivered in your hearing I am sure they were then seasonable; would to God they were not too much so now that they are presented to a publick view. A foure-fold Evill I then observed, (I wish they were not all still too observable;) which the times inclined and disposed multitudes unto, viz. Murmuring, Wavering, Wandring, Fainting. My de…ire and designe in the following discourse was to meet with them all, by suggesting such Counsels as might be proper for each. Possibly my right intentions herein (as in Preaching so in Publishing) may at some hands meet with sinister acceptations; But this I weigh not, my ey… being more upon doing of good, then receiving of thankes. May these my poore labours bee any wayes serviceable to the Church (for whose Peace I am as willing to be sacrificed, as Ionas was to be cast over-board, for the laying of that storme which indangered the Ship wherein himselfe was a Passenger) I shall account it recompence sufficient.Io…. 1.12. In the hopes whereof, with my Prayers for you, that hee who is of power to stablish you would both make and keep you stable in these unstable times I shall leave them with you, and rest
Yarmouth, Iul. 1.1647. Your unworthy servant in our Lord, Iohn Brinsley.