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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.
1 Because, as temptation tries what metal a Christian is made of, so do afflictions.
2 Because, as Satan usually hath a great hand in all the temptations that come upon us, so he hath a great hand in all the afflictions that befall us. As you see in that great instance of Job.
2 Because, as Satan usually hath a great hand in all the temptations that come upon us, so hee hath a great hand in all the afflictions that befall us. As you see in that great instance of Job.
3 Because, as temptations ⟨p. 134⟩drive to God, 2 Cor. 12. 7, 8. so do afflictions, Isa. 26. 16. Hosea 5. ult. but mainly, because Satan chooses times of afflictions as the fittest season for his temptations; when Job was sorely afflicted in his estate, children, wife, life, then Sa[…] lets fly, and makes his fiercest assaults upon him; now Satan tempts him to entertain hard thoughts of God, to distrust, to impatience, to murmuring1 and muttering: As when Israel was feeble, faint and weary, Amaleck assaulted them, and smote the hindmost of them, Deut. 25. 17, 18