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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 Archias a Lacedaemonian, that whilst he was rioting and quaffing in the midst of his cups, one delivers him a letter purposely to signify that there were some that lay in wait to take1 away his life, & withal desires him ⟨p. 165⟩to read it presently, because it was a serious business and matter of high concernment to him; Oh! said he, seria cras, I will think of serious things to morrow, but that night he was slain. Ah murmurer! cease from murmuring to day, or else thou mayest be for ever undone by murmuring to morrow; the old saying, was, nunc aut nunquam, now or never: So say I, now or never, now or never, give over murmuring, and let it swallow up no more of your precious time; what would not many a murmurer give for one of those days, yea for one of those hours which he hath trifled away in murmuring, when it is a day too late?
I have read of Archias a Lacedemonian, that whilst hee was rioting and quaffing in the midst of his cups, one delivers him a letter purposely to signifie that there were some that lay in wait to take1 away his life, & withall desires him ⟨p. 165⟩to read it presently, because it was a serious business and matter of high concernment to him; Oh! said hee, seria cras, I will think of serious things to morrow, but that night hee was slain. Ah murmurer! cease from murmuring to day, or else thou mayest bee for ever undone by murmuring to morrow; the old saying, was, nunc aut nunquam, now or never: So say I, now or never, now or never, give over murmuring, and let it swallow up no more of your precious time; what would not many a murmurer give for one of those daies, yea for one of those hours which hee hath trifled away in murmuring, when it is a day too late?
- 1Plutarch.