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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 3
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Fourthly, They are not long, but short, if compared to that eternity of glory that is reserved for the Saints, 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17, 18. If you turn to the words, you shall1 find for affliction glory, for light afflictions, a weight of glory, and for short momentany afflictions, eternal ⟨p. 221⟩glory; there will quickly be an end of thy sadness, but there will never be an end of thy happiness; there will soon be an end of thy calamity and misery, there will never be and end of thy felicity and glory; the Kingdoms of this world are not2 lasting, much less are they everlasting, they have all their climacterical years, but the Kingdom of Heaven is an everlasting Kingdom, of that there is no end. There were seven sorts of Crowns that were that were in use among the Roman Victors, but they were all fading and perishing; but the Crown of glory that at last God will set upon the heads of his Saints, shall continue as long as God himself continues. Who can look upon those eternal Mansions that are above, and those everlasting pleasures that be at Gods right hand, and say, that his affliction is long? Well Christian, let thy afflictions be never so long, yet one hours being in the bosom of Christ, will make thee forget both the length and ⟨p. 222⟩strength of all thy afflictions.
Fourthly, They are not long, but short, if compared to that eternity of glory that is reserved for the Saints, 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17, 18. If you turn to the words, you shall1 finde for affliction glory, for light afflictions, a weight of glory, and for short momentany afflictions, eternal ⟨p. 221⟩glory; there will quickly be an end of thy sadnesse, but there will never be an end of thy happiness; there will soon bee an end of thy calamity and misery, there will never be and end of thy felicity and glory; the Kingdomes of this world are not