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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
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.
Sixthly and lastly, Read and pray; he that makes not conscience of praying over what he reads, will find little1 sweetness or profit in his reading; no man makes such earnings of his reading, as he that prays ove• what he reads. Luther professeth, that he profited more in the knowledge of the Scriptures by prayer in a short space, than by study in a longer. A• John by weeping got the sealed book open: so certainly men would gain much more than they do, by reading good mens wo•ks, if they would but pray more over what they read. Ah Christians! pray before you read, and pray after you read, that all may be blest and sanctified to you; when you have done reading, usually close up thus,
Sixthly and lastly, Read and pray; hee that makes not conscience of praying over what hee reads, will finde little1 sweetness or profit in his reading; no man makes such earnings of his reading, as hee that praies ove• what hee reads. Luther professeth, that hee profited more in the knowledge of the Scriptures by prayer in a short space, than by study in a longer. A• John by weeping got the sealed book open: so certainly men would gain much more than they do, by reading good mens wo•ks, if they would but pray more over what they read. Ah Christians! pray before you read, and pray after you read, that all may bee blest and sanctified to you; when you have done reading, usually close up thus,
- 1Prayer is porta caeli, •lav•s p•r•disi.