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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.
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⟩world was not worthy. Jerome writes of a brave woman, who being upon the rack, bad her persecutors do their worst, for she was resolved to die, rather than lie. And the Prince of Conde being taken prisoner by Charles the ninth King of France, and put to his choice, whether he would go to Mass, or be put to death, or suffer perpetual imprisonment; his noble answer was, that by Gods help he would never choose the first, and for either of the latter he left to the Kings pleasure, and Gods providence.
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 dasterdly, and an effeminate spirit, to use base shifts, to shuffle your selves out of your troubles. Men of noble, couragious 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⟩world was not worthy. Jerom writes of a brave woman, who being upon the rack, bad her persecutors do their worst, for shee was resolved to die, rather than lie. And the Prince of Conde being taken prisoner by Charles the ninth King of France, and put to his choice, whether hee would go to Masse, or bee put to death, or suffer perpetual imprisonment; his noble answer was, that by Gods help hee would never chuse the first, and for either of the latter hee left to the Kings pleasure, and Gods providence.