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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.
I have read of Caesar, that having1 prepared a great feast for his Nobles and Friends, it so •ell out, that the day appointed was extreme •oul, that nothing could be done to the honour of the meeting, whereupon he was so displeased and enraged, that he commanded ⟨p. 153⟩all them that had bows, to shoot up their arrows at Jupiter (their chief God) as in defiance of him for that rainy weather, which when they did, their arrows fell short of Heaven, and full upon their own heads, so that many of them were very sorely wounded: So all our mutterings and murmurings which are as so many arrows shot at God himself, they will return upon our pates, hearts; they reach not him, but they will hit us; they hurt not him, but they will wound us; therefore it is better to be mute, than to murmur, it is dangerous to provoke a consuming fire. Heb. 12. ult.2
I have read of Caesar, that having1 prepared a great feast for his Nobles and Friends, it so •ell out, that the day appointed was extream •oul, that nothing could be done to the honour of the meeting, whereupon hee was so displeased and enraged, that hee commanded ⟨p. 153⟩all them that had bows, to shoot up their arrows at Jupiter (their chief God) as in defiance of him for that rainy weather, which when they did, their arrows fell short of Heaven, and full upon their own heads, so that many of them were very sorely wounded: So all our mutterings and murmurings which are as so many arrows shot at God himself, they will return upon our pates, hearts; they reach not him, but they will hit us; they hurt not him, but they will wound us; therefore it is better to bee mute, than to murmure, it is dangerous to provoke a consuming fire.