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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.
There is as well a time to weep, as there is a time to laugh; and a time to mourn, as well as a time to dance, Eccles. 3. 4. The mourning garment among the Jews was the black garment, and the black garment was the mourning garment, Psal. 43. 2. Why go ye in mourning, the Hebrew word kadar signifies black, why go ye in black; sometimes Christians must put off their gay ornaments, and put on their black, their mourning garments, Exod. 33. 3, 4, 5, 6. But
There is as well a time to weep, as there is a time to laugh; and a time to mourn, as well as a time to dance, Eccles. 3. 4. The mourning garment among the Jews was the black garment, and the black garment was the mourning garment, Psal. 43. 2. Why go yee in mourning, the Hebrew word kadar signifies black, why go yee in black; sometimes Christians must put off their gay ornaments, and put on their black, their mourning garments, Exod. 33. 3, 4, 5, 6. But
Sixthly, A gracious, a prudent ⟨p. 59⟩Silence, doth not exclude sighing,1 groaning, or roarings under affliction. A man may sigh, and groan, and roar under the hand of God, and yet be silent; it is not sighing, but muttering; it is not groaning, but grumbling; it is not roaring, but murmuring, that is opposite to a holy Silence, Exod. 2. 23