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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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It is an excellent observation of Calvin upon Gods rewarding the Rechabites obedience, Jer. 35. 19. God (saith he) oft recompenseth the shadows and seeming appearances of virtue, to show what complacency he takes in the ample rewards he hath reserved for true and sincere piety. Now, if the longer a Christian is afflicted, the more his religious services will be multiplied, and the more they are multiplied, the more his glory at last will be increased, then, the longer a Saint is afflicted on earth, the more glory he shall have when he comes to Heaven. But
It is an excellent observation of Calvin upon Gods rewarding the Rechabites obedience, Jer. 35. 19. God (saith hee) oft recompenceth the shadows and seeming appearances of virtue, to shew what complacency hee takes in the ample rewards hee hath reserved for true and sincere piety. Now, if the longer a Christian is afflicted, the more his religious services will bee multiplied, and the more they are multiplied, the more his glory at last will bee encreased, then, the longer a Saint is afflicted on earth, the more glory he shall have when hee comes to Heaven. But
Thirdly, The longer any Saint is afflicted, the more into the image and likeness of Christ he will be transformed: It is one of1 Gods great designs and ends in afflicting of his people, to make them more conformable to his Son, and God will not lose his end; men often lose theirs, but God never hath, nor will lose his, and experience ⟨p. 231⟩tells us, that God doth every day by afflictions accomplish this end upon his people; the longer they are afflicted, the more they are made conformable to Christ, in meekness, lowliness, spiritualness, heavenliness, in faith, love, self-denial, pity, compassion, &c. Now certainly, the more like to Christ, the more beloved of Christ; the more a Christian is like to Christ, the more he is the delight of Christ; and the more like to Christ on earth, the nearer the soul shall sit to Christ in Heaven; nothing makes a man more conformable to Christ than afflictions. Justin Martyr (in his second Apology for the Christians) hath observed, that there is scarce any prediction or prophecy concerning our Saviour Christ the Son of God to be made man, but the Heathen writers (who were all after Moses) did from thence invent some fable, and feign it to have been acted by some one or other of Jupiters Sons, only the Prophecies about the cross of