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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, Its marvellous suitableness and usefulness under these great turns and changes that have past upon us. As every wise husbandman observes the fittest seasons to sow his seed; some he sows in the Autumn, and fall of the leaf, some, in the spring1 of the year, some in a dry season, and some in a wet, some in a moist clay, and some in a sandy dry ground: So every spiritual husbandman must observe the ⟨image 6⟩fittest times to sow his spiritual seed in, he hath heavenly seed by him for all occasions and seasons, for spring and fall, for all grounds, heads and hearts; now whether the seed sown in the following Treatise be not suitable to the times and seasons wherein we are cast, is left to the judgement of the prudent Reader to determine; if the Author had thought otherwise, this babe had been stifled in the womb.
Fourthly, Its marvelous suitableness and usefulness under these great turns and changes that have past upon us. As every wise husbandman observes the fittest seasons to sow his seed; some hee sows in the Autumn, and fall of the leaf, some, in the spring1 of the year, some in a dry season, and some in a wet, some in a moist clay, and some in a sandy dry ground: So every spiritual husbandman must observe the ⟨image 6⟩fittest times to sow his spiritual seed in, hee hath heavenly seed by him for all occasions and seasons, for spring and fall, for all grounds, heads and hearts; now whether the seed sown in the following Treatise bee not suitable to the times and seasons wherein wee are cast, is left to the judgement of the prudent Reader to determine; if the Author had thought otherwise, this babe had been stifled in the womb.