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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
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Thirdly, If you enjoy the special presence of God with your spirits in your affliction, then your1 affliction is in love. Isa. 43. 2. When thou passest through the waters, I ⟨p. 173⟩will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: 2when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flames kindle upon thee. Hast thou a special presence of God with thy spirit, strengthening of that, quieting of that, steeling of that, satisfying of that, cheering and comforting of that? Psal. 94. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts (that is, of my troubled, intricated, ensnarled, intertwined, and perplexed thoughts (as the branches of a tree by some strong wind are twisted one within another, as the Hebrew word properly signifies) thy comforts delight my soul. Here's a presence of God with his soul, here's comforts and delights that reaches the soul, here's a cordial to strengthen his spirit. When3 all things went cross with Andronicus the old Emperor of Constantinople, he took a Psalter into his hand, and opening the same, he lighted upon Psal. 68. 14. When the Almighty scattered Kings, they ⟨p. 174⟩shall be white as Snow in Salmon; which Scripture was a mighty comfort and refreshment to his spirit: Now you are to remember that Salmon signifies shady and dark, and so was this Mount by the reason of many lofty fair spread trees, that were near it, but made lightsome by Snow that covered it: so that to be white as Snow in Salmon, is to have joy in affliction, light in darkness, mercy in misery, &c. And thus God was to the Psalmist as Snow in Salmon in the midst of his greatest afflictions. When Paul would wish his dear Son Timothy the best mercy in all the world, the greatest mercy in all the world, the most comprehensive mercy in all the world, a mercy that carries the virtue, value and sweetness of all mercies in it, he wishes the presence of God with his spirit,