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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.
And Cyprian in his Sermon de laps•s, speaks of divers, who forsaking the Faith to avoid sufferings, were given over to be possessed ⟨p. 110⟩of evil spirits, and died fearfully. Oh man! thou dost not know what deadly sin, what deadly temptation, what deadly judgement, what deadly stroke thou mayest fall under, who attempts to sin thy self out of troubles: what is it to take Venice, and to be hanged at the gates thereof? It is better to be silent and mute under thy afflictions, than by using sinful shifts, to sin thy self under greater afflictions.
And Cyprian in his Sermon de laps•s, speaks of divers, who forsaking the Faith to avoid sufferings, were given over to bee possessed ⟨p. 110⟩of evil spirits, and died fearfully. Oh man! thou dost not know what deadly sin, what de•dly temptation, what deadly judgement, what deadly stroak thou mayest fall under, who attempts to sin thy self out of troubles: what is it to take Venice, and to bee hanged at the gates thereof? It is better to bee silent and mute under thy afflictions, than by using sinful shifts, to sin thy self under greater afflictions.
Fourthly, Consider, it is a very ignoble and unworthy thing, to go to sin your selves out of your troubles and straights; it argues a poor, a low, a weak, a dastardly, and an effeminate spirit, to use base shifts, to shuffle your selves out of your troubles. Men of noble, courageous and magnanimous spirits, will disdain and scorn it. As you may see in the three children,1 Daniel, and those worthies, in that 11th of the Hebrews, of whom this ⟨p. 111⟩