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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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Secondly, Consider, That the Holy Ghost hath set a brand of infamy upon murmurers, he hath stigmatized them for ungodly persons, Jude 15. 16. To execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they ⟨p. 147⟩have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. But who are these ungodly sinners? They are murmurers, complainers walking after their own lusts, &c. vers. 16. When Christ comes to execute judgement upon ungodly ones, murmurers shall be set in the front, they shall experience the firstness of his wrath, and the fierceness of his wrath, and the greatness of his wrath; the front you know is first assaulted, and most strongly assaulted, Christ will bond all his power and strength against murmurers, his little finger shall be heavier upon1 them, than his loins shall be upon others, other sinners shall be chastised with whips, but ungodly murmurers shall be chastised with scorpions; if you can joy in that black character of ungodly sinners, be murmurers still, if not, cease from murmurings; where murmuring is in its reign, in its dominion, there you may speak ⟨p. 148⟩and write that person ungodly; let murmurers make what profession they will of godliness, yet if murmuring keeps the Throne in their hearts, Christ will deal with them at last as ungodly sinners; a man may be denominated ungodly, as well from his murmuring, if he lives under the dominion of it, as from his drunkenness, swearing, whoring, lying, stealing, &c. A murmurer is an ungodly man, he is an ungodlike man, no man on earth more unlike to God, than the murmurer; and therefore no wonder if when Christ comes to execute judgement, he deals so severely and terribly with him. In the wars of Tamberlain, one having found a great pot of Gold that was hid in the earth, he brought it to Tamberlain, who asked whether it had his Fathers stamp upon it, but when he saw it had not his Fathers stamp, but the Roman stamp upon it, he would not own it, but cast it away. The Lord Jesus, when he shall come ⟨p. 149⟩with all his Saints to execute judgement, Oh he will not own murmurers, nay, he will cast them away for ever, because they have not his Fathers stamp upon them. Ah souls! souls, as you would not go up and down this world with a badge of ungodliness upon you, take heed of murmuring.