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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
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Thirdly, They are not so many ⟨p. 238⟩as God might have exercised thee with; God could as easily exercise thee with ten, as with two, and with a hundred as with ten, and with a thousand as with a hundred; let thy afflictions be never1 so many, yet they are not so many as they might have been; had God either consulted with thy sins, with thy deserts, or with his own2 justice; there is no comparison between those afflictions that God hath inflicted upon thee, and those that he might have inflicted; thou hast not one burden of a thousand that God could have laid on, but he would not; therefore hold thy peace.
Thirdly, They are not so many ⟨p. 238⟩as God might have exercised thee with; God could as easily exercise thee with ten, as with two, and with a hundred as with ten, and with a thousand as with a hundred; let thy afflictions bee never1 so many, yet they are not so many as they might have been; had God either consulted with thy sins, with thy deserts, or with his own2 justice; there is no comparison between those afflictions that God hath inflicted upon thee, and those that hee might have inflicted; thou hast not one burden of a thousand that God could have laid on, but hee would not; therefore hold thy peace.
- 1Lam. 3. 39. Luk. 23. 41
- 2What are the number of Princes to the subjects that are under them, or what are the number of Generals, to the number of soldiers that are commanded by them? no more are thy afflictions to thy mercies