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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.
As there are two kinds of Antidotes against poison, viz. hot and cold; so there are two kinds of Antidotes against all the troubles and afflictions of this life, viz. prayer and patience, the one hot, the other cold, the one quenching, the other quickening. Chrysostom understood this well enough, when he cried out, O! (saith he) it is more bitter than death to be spoiled of prayer, and thereupon observes, that Daniel chose rather to run the hazard of his life, than to lose his prayer: Well, this is the second thing; a holy Silence doth not exclude prayer. But1
As there are two kinds of Antidotes against poison, viz. hot and cold; so there are two kinds of Antidotes against all the troubles and afflictions of this life, viz. prayer and patience, the one hot, the other cold, the one quenching, the other quickning. Chrysostome understood this well enough, when hee cryed out, O! (saith hee) it is more bitter than death to be spoiled of prayer, and thereupon observes, that Daniel chose rather to run the hazard of his life, than to lose his prayer: Well, this is the second thing; a holy Silence doth not exclude prayer. But1
- 1Read the 9th. of Ezra, the 9th. of Nehemiah, and the 9th. of Daniel, and Psalm 51. with that 7th. chapter of Job.
Thirdly, A holy, a prudent Silence, doth not exclude mens being kindly affected and afflicted with their sins, as the meritorious cause of all their sorrows and sufferings, Lam. 3. 39, 40. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin? Let us search ⟨p. 51⟩and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.