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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.
Eleventhly, Thou canst not tell how bad thy heart might have1 proved under the enjoyment of those near and dear mercies that now thou hast lost. Israel were very bad whilst they were in the wilderness, but they were much worse when they came to possess Canaan, that Land of desires; mans blood is apt to rise with his outward good: In the winter, men gird their clothes close about them, but in the Summer they let them hang loose; in the winter of adversity many a Christian girds his heart close to God, to Christ, to Gospel, to Godliness, to Ordinances, to Duties, &c. who in the summer of mercy, hangs loose from all.
Eleventhly, Thou canst not tell how bad thy heart might have1 proved under the enjoyment of those near and dear mercies that now thou hast lost. Israel were very bad whilst they were in the wilderness, but they were much worse when they came to possesse Canaan, that Land of desires; mans blood is apt to rise with his outward good: In the winter, men gird their cloaths close about them, but in the Summer they let them hang loose; in the winter of adversity many a Christian girds his heart close to God, to Christ, to Gospel, to Godliness, to Ordinances, to Duties, &c. who in the summer of mercy, hangs loose from all.
- 1Deut. 32. ult. 5. to the end. Jer. 5. 7, 8, 9. ch. 2. 31. & ch. 22. 21. Hosea 4. 7
I have read of the Pine-tree, that if the bark be pulled off, it will last a long time, but if it continue long on, it rots the tree. Ah! how ⟨p. 213⟩