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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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Secondly, This truth looks sourly upon those that fret, chafe, and vex, when they are under the afflicting hand of God. Many when they feel the Rod to smart, ah how do they fret and fume! Isa. 8. 21. When they were hardly bestead and hungry, they fret themselves, and curse their King, and their God. Prov. 19. 3. The foolishness of man perverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the Lord. The heart may be fretful and1 froward, when the tongue doth not blaspheme. Folly brings man into misery, and misery makes man to fret; man in misery is more apt to fret and chafe against the Lord, than to fret and chafe against his sin that hath brought him into sufferings. A fretful soul dares let fly at God himself. When ⟨p. 95⟩Pharaoh is troubled with the frets, he dare spit in the very face o• God himself; Who is the Lord, that I should obey him? And when Jonah is in a fretting humour, he dares tell God to his face, that he doth well to be angry. Jonah 4. 8. Jonah had done well if he had been angry with his sin, but he did very ill to be angry with his God. God will vex every vein in that mans heart, before he hath done with him, who fumes and frets, because he cannot snap in sunder the cords with which he is bound, Ezek. 16. 43. Sometimes good men are sick of the frets, but when they are, it costs them dear; as Job and Jonah found by experience. No man hath ever got any thing by his fretting and flinging, except it hath been harder blows, or heavier chains; therefore fret not when God strikes.
Secondly, This truth looks sourely upon those that fret, chafe, and vex, when they are under the afflicting hand of God. Many when they feel the Rod to smart, ah how do they fret and fume! Isa. 8. 21. When they were hardly bestead and hungry, they fret themselves, and curse their King, and their God.