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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 3
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.
Secondly, Thy afflictions are not so long as the afflictions of other ⟨p. 218⟩Saints; compare thy winter nights and other Saints winter nights together; thy storms and troubles, and other Saints storms and troubles together, thy losses and other1 Saints losses together, thy miseries and other Saints miseries together, witness the proofs in the Margin; thy afflictions are but as a moment, they are but as yesterday, if compared with the afflictions of other Saints, whose whole lives have been made up of sorrows and sufferings, as the life of Christ was; many a mans life hath been nothing but a lingering death, Job 21. 25. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. There are those that have never a good day all their days, who have not a day of rest among all their days of trouble, not a day of health among all their days of sickness, nor a day of gladness among all their days of sadness, nor a day of strength among all their days of weakness, nor a day of honour among ⟨p. 219⟩all their days of reproach, whose whole life is one continued winters night, who every day drink gall and wormwood, who lye down sighing, who rise groaning, and who spend their days in complaining, no sorrow to our sorrows, no sufferings to our sufferings; some there be who have always tears in their eyes, sorrows in their hearts, rods on their backs, and crosses in their hands, but it is not so with thee, therefore be silent.
Secondly, Thy afflictions are not so long as the afflictions of other ⟨p. 218⟩Saints; compare thy winter nights and other Saints winter nights together; thy storms and troubles, and other Saints storms and troubles together, thy losses and other1 Saints losses together, thy miseries and other Saints miseries together, witness the proofs in the Margin; thy afflictions are but as a moment, they are but as yesterday, if compared with the afflictions of other Saints, whose whole lives have been made up of sorrows and sufferings, as the life of Christ was; many a mans life hath been nothing but a lingring death,