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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.
Pliny in his natural history,1 writeth of certain Trees growing in the red Seas, which being beat upon by the waves, stand like a ⟨p. 122⟩rock, immovable, and that they are bettered by the roughness of the waters. In the Sea of afflictions God will make his people stand like a rock, they shall be immovable, and invincible, and the more the waves of afflictions beat upon them, the better they shall be, the more they shall thrive in grace and godliness. Now how should this engage Christians to be mute and silent under all their troubles and trials in this world, considering that they shall all work for their good? God chastises our carcasses, to heal our consciences, he afflicts our bodies, to save our souls, he gives us gall and wormwood here, that the pleasures that be at his right hand may be the more sweet hereafter; here he lays us upon a bed of thorns, that we may look and long more for that easy bed of down (his bosom) in Heaven.
Pliny in his natural history,1 writeth of certain Trees growing in the red Seas, which being beat upon by the waves, stand like a ⟨p. 122⟩rock, immoveable, and that they are bettered by the roughness of the waters. In the Sea of afflictions God will make his people stand like a rock, they shall bee immoveable, and invincible, and the more the waves of afflictions beat upon them, the better they shall bee, the more they shall thrive in grace and godliness. Now how should this ingage Christians to bee mute and silent under all their troubles and trials in this world, considering that they shall all work for their good? God chastises our carkasses, to heal our consciences, hee afflicts our bodies, to save our souls, hee gives us gall and wormwood here, that the pleasures that bee at his right hand may bee the more sweet hereafter; here hee layes us upon a bed of thorns, that wee may look and long more for that easie bed of down (his bosome) in Heaven.
- 1Lib. 12. cap. 9.