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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
THE MUTE CHRISTIAN Under the SMARTING ROD. › Objections › Objection 1
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.
Object. 1. Sir, did I but know that I were afflicted in love, I would hold my peace under my affliction, I would sit mute before the Lord, but Oh! how shall I come to understand that these strokes are the strokes of love, that these wounds are the wounds of a friend? I answer,
Object. 1. Sir, did I but know that I were afflicted in love, I would hold my peace under my affliction, I would sit mute before the Lord, but Oh! how shall I come to understand that these stroaks are the stroaks of love, that these wounds are the wounds of a friend? I answer,
First, If thy heart be drawn more out to the Lord by the affliction,1 then the affliction is in love; if they are so sanctified, as that they draw out thy soul to love the Lord more, and to fear the Lord more, and to please the Lord more, and to cleave to the Lord more, and to wait on the Lord more, and to walk with the Lord more, then they are in love. Oh! then they are the wounds of a friend indeed. It is reported of the Lioness, that she leaves her young whelps till they have almost killed themselves with roaring and yelling, and then at last gasp, when they have almost spent themselves, she relieves them, and by this means they become more courageous; and so if the afflictions that are upon us do increase our courage, strengthen our patience, raise our faith, inflame our love, and enliven our hopes: Certainly they are in love, and all our wounds are the wounds of a friend. But
First, If thy heart bee drawn more out to the Lord by the affliction,1 then the affliction is in love; if they are so sanctified, as that they draw out thy soul to love the Lord more, and to fear the Lord more, and to please the Lord more, and to cleave to the Lord more, and to wait on the Lord more, and to walk with the Lord more, then they are in love. Oh! then they are the wounds of a friend indeed. It is reported of the Lioness, that shee leaves her young whelps till they have almost killed themselves with roaring and yelling, and then at last gasp, when they have almost spent themselves, shee relieves them, and by this means they become more couragious; and so if the afflictions that are upon us do encrease our courage, strengthen our patience, raise our faith, inflame our love, and enliven our hopes: Certainly they are in love, and all our wounds are the wounds of a friend. But