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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.
Sixthly, Consider, That murmuring is a mercy-embittering sin, a mercy-souring sin. As put the sweetest things into a sour vessel, it sours them, or put them into a bitter vessel, and it embitters them; murmuring puts gall and wormwood into every cup of mercy, that God gives into our hands. As holy silence gives a sweet taste, a delightful relish to all a mans mercies; so murmuring embitters all; the murmurer can taste no sweetness in his sweetest morsels, every mercy, every morsel tastes1 like the white of an Egg to him; this mercy, saith the murmurer, is not toothsome, nor that mercy is ⟨p. 157⟩not wholesome; here is a mercy wants salt, and there is a mercy wants sauce. A murmurer can taste no sweet, he can feel no comfort, he can take no delight in any mercy he enjoys. The murmurer writes Marah, that is, bitterness upon all his mercies, and he reads and tastes bitterness in all his mercies. All the murmurers Grapes, are Grapes of Gall, and all their clusters are bitter, Deut. 32. 32. As to the hungry soul, every 2bitter thing is sweet: So to the murmuring soul, every sweet thing is bitter; the mute Christian can suck sweetness from every breast of mercy, but the murmurer cries out, Oh it is bitter! Oh these breasts of mercy are dry!
Sixthly, Consider, That murmuring is a mercy-imbittering sin, a mercy-souring sin. As put the sweetest things into a soure vessel, it soures them, or put them into a bitter vessel, and it imbitters them; murmuring puts gall and wormwood into every cup of mercy, that God gives into our hands. As holy silence gives a sweet taste, a delightful rellish to all a mans mercies; so murmuring imbitters all; the murmurer can taste no sweetness in his sweetest morsels, every mercy, every morsel tastes1 like the white of an Egge to him; this mercy, saith the murmurer, is not toothsome, nor that mercy is ⟨p. 157⟩not wholesome; here is a mercy wants salt, and there is a mercy wants sauce. A murmurer can taste no sweet, hee can feel no comfort, hee can take no delight in any mercy hee injoyes. The murmurer writes Marah, that is, bitterness upon all his mercies, and hee reads and tastes bitterness in all his mercies. All the murmurers Grapes, are Grapes of Gall, and all their clusters are bitter,