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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.
Ninthly, Consider, That holy Silence under afflictions and trials, will give a man a quiet and peaceable ⟨p. 136⟩possession of his own soul, In patience possess your souls; now next to the possession of God, the1 possession of a mans own soul is the greatest mercy in this world. A man may possess honours & riches, and dear relations, and the favour and assistance of friends under his trials, but he will never come to a possession of his own soul under his troubles, till he comes to be mute, and to lay his hand upon his mouth. Now what are all earthly possessions, to the possession of a mans own soul? he that possesses himself, possesses all, he that possesses not himself, possesses nothing at all; he possesses not the use, the sweet, the comfort, the good, the blessing of any thing he enjoys, who enjoys not himself; that man that is not Master of himself, he is Master of nothing; holy Silence gives a man the greatest Mastery over his own spirit, and Mastery over a mans own spirit, is the greatest Mastery in the2 world. The Egyptian Goddess they ⟨p. 137⟩paint upon a rock standing in the Sea, where the waves come roaring and dashing upon her, with this Motto, Semper eadem, storms shall not move me. A holy Silence will give a man such a quiet possession of his own soul, that all the storms of afflictions shall not move him; it will make him stand like a Rock in a Sea of troubles; let a man but quietly possess himself, and troubles will never trouble him. But
Ninthly, Consider, That holy Silence under afflictions and trials, will give a man a quiet and peaceable ⟨p. 136⟩possession of his own soul, In patience possess your souls; now next to the possession of God, the1 possession of a mans own soul is the greatest mercy in this world. A man may possess honours & riches, and dear relations, and the favour and assistance of friends under his trials, but hee will never come to a possession of his own soul under his troubles, till hee comes to bee mute, and to lay his hand upon his mouth. Now what are all earthly possessions, to the possession of a mans own soul? he that possesses himself, possesses all, he that possesses not himself, possesses nothing at all; hee possesses not the use, the sweet, the comfort, the good, the blessing of any thing hee enjoyes, who enjoyes not himself; that man that is not Master of himself, hee is Master of nothing; holy Silence gives a man the greatest Mastery over his own spirit, and Mastery over a mans own spirit, is the greatest Mastery in the