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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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Fourthly, This truth looks sourly and sadly upon such as will not be silent, nor satisfied under the afflicting hand of God, except the Lord will give them ⟨p. 98⟩the particular reasons why he lays his hand upon them. Good men sometimes dash their feet against this stumbling-stone, Jer. 15. 18. Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? &c. Though God hath always reason for what he doth, yet he is not bound to show us the reasons of his doings. Jeremiah's passion was up, his blood was hot, and now nothing will silence nor satisfy him, but the reasons why his pain was perpetual, and his wound incurable, So Job, chap. 7. 20. Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my self? It is an evil and a dangerous thing to cavil at, or to question his proceedings, who is the chief Lord of1 all, and who may do with his own what he pleaseth? He is unaccountable, and uncontrollable; and therefore who shall say what doest thou? As no man may question his right to afflict him, nor his righteousness in afflicting of him; so no man may question the ⟨p. 99⟩reasons why he afflicts him. As no man can compel him to give a reason of his doings; so no man may dare to ask him the particular reasons of his doings. Kings think themselves not bound to give their subjects a reason of their2 doings; and shall we bind God to give us a reason of his doings? who is the King of Kings, and3 Lord of Lords, and whose will is the true reason, and only rule of justice. The general grounds and reasons that God hath laid down in his word, why he afflicts his people, as viz. for their profit, Heb. 12. 10. for the purging away of their sins, Isa. 1. 25. for the reforming of their lives,