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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
THE MUTE CHRISTIAN Under the SMARTING ROD. › Objections › Objection 2
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.
Thirdly, Your near and dear mercies were first the Lords, before they were yours, and always the Lords more than they were yours; when God gives a mercy, he doth not relinquish his own right in that mercy, 1 Chron. 29. 14. All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. The sweet of mercy is yours, but the sovereign right to dispose of your mercies is the Lords. Quicquid es, debes creanti, quicquid potes, debes redimenti. Bern. Whatsoever thou art, thou ⟨p. 190⟩owest to him that made thee; and whatsoever thou hast, thou owest to him that redeemed thee. You say it is but just and reasonable that men should do with their own as they please, and is it not just and reasonable, that God, who is Lord Paramount, should do with his own as he pleases? dost thou believe that the great God may do in Heaven what he pleases, and on the Seas what he pleases, and in the Nations and Kingdoms of the world what he pleases, and in thy heart what he pleases? and dost thou not believe that God may do in thy house what he pleases, and do with thy mercies what he pleases? Job 9. 12. Behold 1he taketh away, or he snatcheth away (it may be a husband, a wife, a child, an estate) who can hinder him? who will say unto him what doest thou? Who dares cavil against God? who dares question that God that is unquestionable? that chief Lord that is uncontrollable? and who may do with his ⟨p. 191⟩own what he pleaseth? Dan. 4. 35. And all the Inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doth according to his will, in the Army 2of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what doest thou? Where is the Prince, the Peasant, the Master, the Servant, the Husband, the Wife, the Father, the Child, that dares say to God, what doest thou? In matters of Arithmetical accounts, set one against ten, ten against a hundred, a hundred against a thousand, a thousand against ten thousand, although there be great odds, yet there is some comparison; but if a man could set down an infinite number, then there could be no comparison at all, because the one is finite, the other infinite; so set all the Princes and Powers of the earth in opposition to God, they shall never be able to withstand him.