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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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Fifthly, If by outward afflictions thy soul be brought more under1 the inward teachings of God, doubtless thy afflictions are in love. Psal. 94. 12. Blessed is the man ⟨p. 179⟩whom thou chastenest, O Lord! and teachest him out of thy Law. All the chastening in the world, without divine teaching, will never make a man blessed; that man that finds correction attended with instruction, and lashing with lessoning, is a happy man. If God by the affliction that is upon thee shall teach thee how to loathe sin more, and how to trample upon the world more, and how to walk with God more, thy afflictions are in love; if God shall teach thee by afflictions how to dye to sin more, and how to dye to thy relations more, and how to dye to self-interest more, thy afflictions are in love; if God shall teach thee by afflictions how to live to Christ more, how to lift up Christ more, and how to long for Christ more, thy afflictions are in love; If God shall teach thee by afflictions, to get assurance of a better life, and to be still in a gracious readiness and preparedness for the day of thy death, thy ⟨p. 178⟩[…] ⟨p. 179⟩[…] ⟨p. 180⟩afflictions are in love; if God shall teach thee by afflictions how to mind Heaven more, how to live in Heaven more, and how to fit for Heaven more, thy afflictions are in love; if God by afflictions shall teach thy proud heart how to lye more low, and thy hard heart how to grow more humble, and thy censorious heart how to grow more charitable, and thy carnal heart how to grow more spiritual, and thy froward heart how to grow more quiet, &c. thy afflictions are in love. When God teaches thy reins as well as thy brains, thy heart as well as thy head these lessons, or any of these lessons, thy afflictions are in love.2 Pambo an illiterate dunce, as the Historian terms him, was a learning that one lesson, I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue, nineteen years, and yet had not learned it. Ah! it is to be feared that there are many who have been in the school of affliction above this nineteen years,