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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.
Eighthly and lastly, A holy, a prudent Silence, doth not exclude a just and sober complaining against the Authors, contrivers, abettors or instruments of our afflictions. 2 Tim. 4. 14. Alexander the Copper-Smith did me much evil, the Lord reward him according to his works. This Alexander is conceived by some to be that Alexander that is mentioned, Act. 19. 32. who stood so close to Paul at Ephesus, that he run the hazard of losing his life by appearing on his side; yet if glorious professors come to be furious persecutors, Christians may complain. 2 Cor. 11. 24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. They inflict, saith Maimonides, no more than forty stripes, though he be as strong as Sampson, ⟨p. 65⟩but if he be weak, they abate of that number: They scourged Paul with the greatest severity, in making him suffer so oft the utmost extremity of the Jewish Law, when as they that were weak had their punishment mitigated. Vers. 25. Thrice was I beaten with Rods, that is, by the Romans, whose custom it was to beat the guilty with Rods.
Eighthly and lastly, A holy, a prudent Silence, doth not exclude a just and sober complaining against the Authors, contrivers, abettors or instruments of our afflictions. 2 Tim. 4. 14. Alexander the Copper-Smith did mee much evil, the Lord reward him according to his works. This Alexander is conceived by some to bee that Alexander that is mentioned, Act. 19. 32. who stood so close to Paul at Ephesus, that hee run the hazard of losing his life by appearing on his side; yet if glorious professors come to bee furious persecutors, Christians may complain. 2 Cor. 11. 24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. They inflict, saith Maimonides, no more than forty stripes, though hee bee as strong as Sampson, ⟨p. 65⟩