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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
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Reas. 6. A sixth Reason why gracious souls should be silent under the smarting Rod, is this, viz. 1because it is fruitless, it is bootless to strive, to contest, or contend with God; no man hath ever got any thing by muttering or murmuring under the hand of God, except it hath been, more frowns, blows and wounds. Such as will not lye quiet and still when mercy hath tied them with silken cords, justice will put them in Iron chains; if Golden fetters will not hold you, Iron shall. If Jonah will vex, and fret, and fling, justice will fling him over-board, to cool him, and quell him, and keep him prisoner in the Whales belly, till his stomach be brought ⟨p. 85⟩down, and his spirit be made quiet before the Lord: What you get by struggling and grumbling, you may put in your eye, and weep it out when you have done, Jer. 7. 19. Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? By provoking of me, they do but provoke themselves, by angering of me, they do but anger themselves, by vexing of me, they do but fret and vex themselves. 1 Cor. 10. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Reas. 6. A sixth Reason why gracious souls should bee silent under the smarting Rod, is this, viz. 1because it is fruitless, it is bootless to strive, to contest, or contend with God; no man hath ever got any thing by muttering or murmuring under the hand of God, except it hath been, more frowns, blows and wounds. Such as will not lye quiet and still when mercy hath tied them with silken cords, justice will put them in Iron chains; if Golden fetters will not hold you, Iron shall. If Jonah will vex, and fret, and fling, justice will fling him over-board, to cool him, and quell him, and keep him prisoner in the Whales belly, till his stomack bee brought ⟨p. 85⟩down, and his spirit be made quiet before the Lord: What you get by strugling and grumbling, you may put in your eye, and weep it out when you have done,