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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 4
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.
To this I answer thus, First, Thy afflictions are not so many as thy sins; thy sins are as the stars of1 Heaven, and as the sands of the Sea, that cannot be numbered;2 there are three things that no Christian can number; 1 His sins. 2 Divine favours. 3 The joys and pleasures that be at Christs right hand; but there is no Christian so poor an accountant, but that he may quickly sum up the number of his troubles and afflictions in this world; thy sins, Oh Christian! ⟨p. 237⟩are like the Syrians that filled the Country, but thy afflictions are like the two little flocks of Kids, that pitched before them, 1▪ King. 20. 27. therefore hold thy peace.
To this I answer thus, First, Thy afflictions are not so many as thy sins; thy sins are as the stars of1 Heaven, and as the sands of the Sea, that cannot bee numbred;2 there are three things that no Christian can number; 1 His sins. 2 Divine favours. 3 The joys and pleasures that bee at Christs right hand; but there is no Christian so poor an accountant, but that hee may quickly sum up the number of his troubles and afflictions in this world; thy sins, Oh Christian! ⟨p. 237⟩are like the Syrians that filled the Country, but thy afflictions are like the two little flocks of Kids, that pitched before them, 1▪ King. 20. 27. therefore hold thy peace.
- 1Psa. 40. 12
- 2Psal. 16. ult.