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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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Sixthly, Consider, that if you sit not quiet and silent under your greatest troubles, and your sorest trials, you will be found fighters against your own prayers. How often have you prayed that the will of God may be done, yea, that it may be done on the earth as the Angels (those glistering Courtiers,1 those Princes of glory) do it now in Heaven? when troubles and afflictions come upon you, the will of God is done, his will is accomplished, why then should you fret, ⟨p. 130⟩fling, and fume, and not rather quietly lye down in his will, whose2 will is a perfect will, a just and righteous will, a wise will, an over-ruling will, an infinite will, a sovereign will, a holy will, an immutable will, an uncontrollable will, an omnipotent will, and an eternal will; certainly you will but add affliction to affliction, by fighting against your own prayers, and by vexing and fretting your selves when the will of God is done; it is sad to see a man to fight against his friends, it is sadder to see him fight against his relations, it is saddest of all to see him fight against his prayers, and yet this every Christian doth, who murmurs and mutters when the Rod of God is upon him; some there be that pray against their prayers, as Augustine, who prayed for continency, with a proviso, Lord give me continency, but not yet; And some there be who fight against their prayers, as those who pray that the will of God may be ⟨p. 131⟩done, and yet when his will is done upon them, they are like the troubled Sea, when it cannot rest, they are still fretting against the Lord. Ah Christians! have you not sins to fight against, and temptations to fight against, and a Devil to fight against yea a whole world to fight against? why then should you be found fighting against your own prayers? But
Sixthly, Consider, that if you sit not quiet and silent under your greatest troubles, and your sorest trials, you will bee found fighters against your own prayers. How often have you prayed that the will of God may bee done, yea, that it may bee done on the earth as the Angels (those glistering Courtiers,1