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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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Eighthly, Consider, That murmuring unfits the soul for duty:1 A murmurer can neither hear to profit, nor pray to profit, nor ⟨p. 160⟩read to profit, nor meditate to profit; the murmurer is neither fit to do good, nor receive good; murmuring unfits the soul for doing of duties, it unfits the soul for delighting in duties, it unfits the soul for communion with God in duties; murmuring fills the2 soul with cares, fears, distractions, vexations; all which unfits a man for duty. As a holy quietness and calmness of spirit prompts a man to duty; as it makes every duty easy and pleasant to the3 soul: so murmuring, that unhinges the soul, that indisposes the soul, that takes off the Chariot wheels of the soul, that the soul cannot look up to God, nor do for God, nor receive from God,4 nor wait on God, nor walk with God, nor act Faith upon God, &c. Oh therefore! as ever you would be in a blessed preparedness,5 and a blessed fittedness for duty, take heed of murmuring, and •it mu•e and silent under the afflicting hand of God.
Eighthly, Consider, That murmuring unfits the soul for duty:1 A murmurer can neither hear to profit, nor pray to profit, nor ⟨p. 160⟩read to profit, nor meditate to profit; the murmurer is neither fit to do good, nor receive good; murmuring unfits the soul for doing of duties, it unfits the soul for delighting in duties, it unfits the soul for communion with God in duties; murmuring fills the2