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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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Consider first, The greatness, sovereignty, majesty and dignity1 of God, and let that move thee to silence. Psal. 46. 8, 9, 10. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the Heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Who can cast his eye upon the greatness of God, the majesty of God, and not sit still before him? Zeph. 1. 7. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God. Oh chat not, murmur not, fret not, but stand mute before him! Shall the child be hushed before his Father, the servant before his Master, the subject before his Prince, and the guilty person before the Judge when he ⟨p. 118⟩majestically rises off his judgement seat, and composes his countenance into an aspect of terror and severity, that his sentence may fall upon the offender with the greater dread? and shall not a Christian be quiet before that God that can bathe his sword in Heaven, and burn the chariots on earth? Nay, shall the Sheep be hushed before the Wolf, Birds before the Hawk, and all the Beasts of the field before the Lion? and shall not we be hushed and quiet before him, who is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah? Rev. 5. 5. God is mighty in power, and mighty in counsel, and mighty in working, and mighty in punishing; and therefore be silent before him. It appears that God is a mighty God, by the Epithet that is added unto Ell, which is Gibbor, importing that he is a God of prevailing might; in Daniel he is called Ell Elim, the mighty of mighties. Moses magnifying of2 his might, saith, Who is like unto thee among the gods? Now certainly ⟨p. 119⟩this Epithet should be a mighty motive to work souls to that which Habakkuk persuades to,