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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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Seventhly, Consider, That murmuring is a mercy-destroying sin, a mercy-murdering sin; murmuring cuts the throat of mercy, it stabs all our mercies at the heart, it sets all a mans mercies a bleeding about him at once, Numb. 14. 30. ⟨p. 158⟩Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the Son 1of Jephunneh, and Joshua the Son of Nun. God promises them that they should possess the holy land upon the condition of their obedience; this condition they brake, and therefore God was not forsworn, though he cut them off in the wilderness, and kept them out of Canaan; but what is the sin that provokes the Lord to bar them out of the land of Promise, and to cut them off from all those mercies that they enjoyed, which entered into the holy-land? why it was their murmuring, as you may see, in vers. 1, 2, 3, 26, 27, 28, 29. As you love your mercies, as you would have the sweet of your mercies, and as you would enjoy the life of your mercies, take heed of murmuring; murmuring will bring a consumption upon your mercies, it is a worm that will make all your mercies to wither. As there be some that ⟨p. 159⟩love their mercies into the grave, and others that plot their mercies into the grave: so there be some that murmur their mercies into the grave. As you would have your mercies always fresh and green, smiling and thriving, as you would have your mercies to bed and board with you, to rise up, and lye down with you, and in all conditions to attend you; murmur not, murmur not; the mute Christians mercies are most sweet, and most long-lived; the murmurers mercies, like Jonab's Gourd, will quickly wither. Murmuring hath cut the throat of national mercies, of domestical me• cies, and of personal mercies; and therefore Oh how should men fly from it, as from a Serpent! as from the avenger of blood! yea, as from Hell it self!
Seventhly, Consider, That murmuring is a mercy-destroying sin, a mercy-murthering sin; murmuring cuts the throat of mercy, it stabs all our mercies at the heart, it sets all a mans mercies a bleeding about him at once,