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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 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.
Sixthly, It may be thy sins have been much about thy near and dear enjoyments; it may be thou hast over-loved them, and over-prized them, and over-much delighted thy ⟨p. 198⟩self in them; it may be they have often had thy heart, when they should have had but thy hand; it may be that care, that fear, that confidence, that joy that should have been expended upon more noble objects, hath been expended upon them; thy heart, Oh Christian! is Christs bed of spices, and it may be thou hast bedded thy mercies with thee, when Christ hath been put to lye in an1 out-house; thou hast had room for them, when thou hast had none for him, they have had the best, when the worst have been counted good enough for Christ. It is said of2 Reuben, that he went up to his Fathers bed. Ah! how often hath one creature-comfort, and sometimes another, put in between Christ and your sou•s? how often have your dear enjoyments gone up to Christs bed? It is said of the babylonians, that they came in to Aholah, 3and Aholibah's bed of love; may it not he said of your near and dear mercies, that they have come into ⟨p. 199⟩Christs bed of lov•? your hearts, they being that bed wherein Christ4 delights to rest and repose himself. Now, if a husband, a child, a friend, shall take up that room in thy soul that is proper and peculiar to God, God will either embitter it, remove it, or be the death •f it; if once the love of a wife runs out more to a servant, than to her husband, the Master will turn him out of doors, though otherwise he were a servant worth gold. The sweetest comforts of this life, they are but like treasures of Snow; now do but take a handful of Snow, and crush it in your hands, and it will melt away presently, but if you let it lye upon the ground, it will continue for some time; and so it is with the contentments of this world, if you grasp them in your hands, and lay them too near your hearts, they will quickly melt and vanish away, but if you will not hold them too fast in your hands, nor lay them too close to your hearts, they will abide the