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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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Fourthly, If by your affliction, you are made more conformable1 to Christ in his virtues, then certainly your afflictions are in love; many are conformable to Christ in their sufferings, that are not made conformable to Christ in his virtues by their sufferings; many are in poverty, neglect, shame, contempt, reproach, &c. like to Christ, who yet by these are not made more like to Christ, in his meekness, humbleness, heavenliness, holiness, righteousness, faithfulness, fruitfulness, goodness, contentedness, patience, submission, subjection. Oh but if in these things you are made more like to Christ, without all peradventure your afflictions are in love. If by afflictions the soul be led to show forth, or to preach forth the virtues of Christ, as that word imports, ⟨p. 178⟩in that 1 Pet. 2. 9. then certainly2 those afflictions are in love; for they never have such an operation, but where they are set on by a hand of love; when God strikes as an enemy, there all those strokes do but make a man more an enemy to God, as you see in Pharaoh and others; but when the strokes3 of God are the strokes of love, Oh then they do but bring the soul nearer Christ, and transform the soul more and more into the likeness of Christ; if by thy afflictions thou art made more holy, humble, heavenly, &c. they are in love. Every afflicted Christian should strive to be honoured with that Elogy of Salvian, singularis domini praeclarus imitator, An excellent Disciple of a singular Master. But
Fourthly, If by your affliction, you are made more conformable1 to Christ in his virtues, then certainly your afflictions are in love; many are conformable to Christ in their sufferings, that are not made conformable to Christ in his virtues by their sufferings; many are in poverty, neglect, shame, contempt, reproach, &c. like to Christ, who yet by these are not made more like to Christ, in his meekness, humbleness, heavenliness, holiness, righteousness, faithfulness, fruitfulness, goodness, contentedness, patience, submission, subjection. Oh but if in these things you are made more like to Christ, without all peradventure your afflictions are in love. If by afflictions the soul bee led to shew forth, or to preach forth the virtues of Christ, as that word imports,