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The silent soul, with sovereign antidotes against the most miserable exigentsThe silent soul, with soveraign antidotes against the most miserable exigents
The silent soul, with sovereign antidotes against the most miserable exigents: or, A Christian with an olive-leaf in his mouth, when he is under the greatest afflictions, the sharpest and sorest trials and troubles, the saddest and darkest providences and changes, with answers to divers questions and objections that are of greatest importance, all tending to win and work souls to be still, quiet, calm and silent under all changes that have, or may pass upon them in this world, &c. / By Thomas Brooks preacher of the Word at Margarets New Fish-street London, and pastor of the Church of Christ meeting there.The silent soul, with soveraign antidotes against the most miserable exigents: or, A Christian with an olive-leaf in his mouth, when he is under the greatest afflictions, the sharpest and sorest trials and troubles, the saddest and darkest providences and changes, with answers to divers questions and objections that are of greatest importance, all tending to win and work souls to bee still, quiet, calm and silent under all changes that have, or may pass upon them in this world, &c. / By Thomas Brooks preacher of the Word at Margarets New Fish-street London, and pastor of the Church of Christ meeting there.
London: printed by R.I. for John Hancock, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Physician, when he findeth that the potion which he hath given his patient will not work, he seconds it with one more violent, and if that will not work, he gives another yet more violent. If a gentle plaster will not serve, then the Chirurgeon applies that which is more corroding, and if that will not do, then he makes use of his cauterizing knife: So when the Lord afflicts, and men feel it not, when he strikes, and they grieve not, when he wounds them, and they awake not, then the furnace is made hotter than ever; then his fury burns, then he lays on Irons upon Irons, bolt upon bolt, and chain upon chain, until he hath made their lives a hell. Afflictions are the Saints diet-drink, and where do you read in all the Scripture, ⟨p. 48⟩that ever any of the Saints drunk of this diet-drink, and were not sensible of it?
The Physician, when hee findeth that the potion which hee hath given his patient will not work, hee seconds it with one more violent, and if that will not work, hee gives another yet more violent. If a gentle plaister will not serve, then the Chirurgion applies that which is more corroding, and if that will not do, then hee makes use of his cauterizing knife: So when the Lord afflicts, and men feel it not, when hee strikes, and they grieve not, when hee wounds them, and they awake not, then the furnace is made hotter than ever; then his fury burns, then hee laies on Irons upon Irons, bolt upon bolt, and chain upon chain, until hee hath made their lives a hell. Afflictions are the Saints dyet-drink, and where do you read in all the Scripture, ⟨p. 48⟩that ever any of the Saints drunk of this dyet-drink, and were not sensible of it?
Secondly, A holy, a prudent Silence, doth not shut out prayer for1 deliverance out of our afflictions; though the Psalmist lays his hand upon his mouth, in the Text, yet he prays for deliverance, vers. 10, Remove thy stroke away from me, and vers. 11, 12. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my Fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.