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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.
Fourthly, Thy afflictions are not so many as thy mercies, nay, they are not to be named in the day wherein thy mercies are spoken of, what are thy crosses to thy comforts, thy miseries to thy mercies, thy days of sickness to thy days of health, thy days of weakness to thy days of strength, thy ⟨p. 239⟩days of scarcity to thy days of plenty? and this is that the wise man would have us seriously to consider, Eccles. 7. 14. In the day of adversity consider, but what must we consider, that God hath set the one over against the other. As God hath set winter and summer, night and day, fair weather and foul, one over against another: So let us set our present mercies over against our present troubles, and we shall presently find that our mercies exceed our troubles, that they mightily over-balance our present afflictions; therefore let us be silent, let us lay our hands upon our mouths.
Fourthly, Thy afflictions are not so many as thy mercies, nay, they are not to bee named in the day wherein thy mercies are spoken of, what are thy crosses to thy comforts, thy miseries to thy mercies, thy daies of sickness to thy daies of health, thy daies of weakness to thy daies of strength, thy ⟨p. 239⟩daies of scarcity to thy daies of plenty? and this is that the wise man would have us seriously to consider, Eccles. 7. 14. In the day of adversity consider, but what must wee consider, that God hath set the one over against the other. As God hath set winter and summer, night and day, fair weather and foul, one over against another: So let us set our present mercies over against our present troubles, and wee shall presently finde that our mercies exceed our troubles, that they mightily over-ballance our present afflictions; therefore let us bee silent, let us lay our hands upon our mouths.