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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
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, The longer a gracious soul is afflicted, the more his religious duties will be multiplied, Psal. 109. 4. For my love they are my adversaries: but I give my self unto prayer, or as the Hebrew reads it, But I am prayer, or a man of 1prayer. In times of affliction a Christian is all prayer, he is never so much a man of prayer, a man given up to prayer, as in times of affliction. A Christian is never so frequent, so fervent, so abundant in the work of the Lord, as when he is afflicted, Isa. 26. 16. Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when ⟨p. 229⟩thy chastening was upon them. Now, they do not only pray, but they pour out a prayer, they were freely, largely, and abundantly in prayer, when the rod was upon them. Look, as men plentifully pour out water for the quenching of a fire, so did they plentifully pour▪ out their prayers before the Lord; and as affliction puts a man upon being much in prayer, so it puts him upon other duties of Religion answerably. Now this is most certain, that though God will reward no man for his works, yet he will reward every man according to2 works, 1 Cor. 15. ult. Therefore my beloved Brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord, 2 Cor. 9. 6. But this I say, he which soweth sparingly, shall reap sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully, shall reap bountifully; or he which soweth in benedictions or blessings, shall reap in benedictions, as it runs in the original.
Secondly, The longer a gracious soul is afflicted, the more his religious duties will bee multiplied, Psal. 109. 4