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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.
Ninthly, Consider, That murmuring unmans a man, it strips1 him of his reason and understanding, it makes him call evil good, and good evil, it puts light for darkness, and darkness for light, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, it calls Saviours destroyers, and deliverers murderers;2 As you see in the murmuring Israelites; murmuring uncrowns a man, the murmurer may say, my Crown is fallen from my head; murmuring strips a man of all his glory, it spoils all his excellency, it destroys the nobility of man, it speaks him out to be a base ignoble Creature; murmuring clouds a mans understanding, it perverts his judgement, it puts out the eye of reason, it stupefies his conscience, it sours the heart, it disorders the will, and distempers the affections, it be beasts a man, yea it sets him below the beast that perisheth; for a man were better be a beast, than be like a beast; the murmurer is the Hieroglyphic ⟨p. 162⟩of folly, he is a comprehensive vanity, he is a man, and no man, he is sottish and senseless, he neither understands God, nor himself, nor any thing as he should, he is the man that must be sent to school, to learn of the beasts of the field, and the birds of the3 air, and the creeping things of the earth, how to cease from murmuring, and how to be mute. Ah Sirs! as you would have the name, the honour, the reputation of being men, I say men, Take heed of murmuring, and sit silent before the Lord.
Ninthly, Consider, That murmuring unmans a man, it strips1 him of his reason and understanding, it makes him call evil good, and good evil, it puts light for darkness, and darkness for light, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, it calls Saviours destroyers, and deliverers murtherers;2 As you see in the murmuring Israelites; murmuring uncrowns a man, the murmurer may say, my Crown is fallen from my head; murmuring strips a man of all his glory, it spoils all his excellency, it destroies the nobility of man, it speaks him out to bee a base ignoble Creature; murmuring clouds a mans understanding, it perverts his judgement, it puts out the eye of reason, it stupifies his conscience, it soures the heart, it disorders the will, and distempers the affections, it be beasts a man, yea it sets him below the beast that perisheth; for a man were better bee a beast, than bee like a beast; the murmurer is the Hieroglyphick