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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
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Eighthly▪ If God by smiting thee in thy nearest and dearest enjoyments shall put thee upon a more thorough smiting and mortifying of thy dearest sins, thou hast no cause to murmur; God cures David of ⟨p. 204⟩adultery, by killing his endeared child. There is some Delilah, some darling, some beloved sin or1 other, that a Christians calling, condition, constitution, or temptations leads him to play withal, and to hug in his own bosom, rather than some other. As in a ground that lieth untilled, amongst the great variety of weeds, there is usually some master-weed that is rifer and ranker than all the rest; And as it is in the body of man, that although in some degree or other, more or less, there be a mixture of all the four elements, not any of them wholly wanting, yet there is some one of them predominant, that gives the denomination, in which regard some are said to be of a sanguine, some of a phlegmatic, some of a choleric, and some of a melancholic constitution: So it is also in the souls of men, though there be a general mixture and medley of all evil and corrupt qualities, yet is there some one usually that is Paramount, which ⟨p. 205⟩like the Prince of Devils, is most powerful and prevalent, that swayeth and showeth forth it self more eminently and evidently than any other of them do. And as in every mans body there is a seed and principle of death, yet in some there is a proneness to one kind of disease more than other that may hasten death: So, though the root of sin and bitterness hath spread it self over all, yet every man hath his inclination to one kind of sin, rather than another, and this may be called a mans proper sin, his bosom sin, his darling sin. Now, it is one of the hardest works in this world to subdue and bring under this bosom sin. Oh! the prayers, the tears, the sighs, the sobs, the groans, the gripes that it will cost a Christian before he brings under this darling sin!
Eighthly▪ If God by smiting thee in thy nearest and dearest inj•yments shall put thee upon a more thorow smiting and mortifying of thy dearest sins, thou hast no cause to murmure; God cures David of