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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.
Fifthly, If you cast up a just and righteous account, you will find1 that they are not so many as the afflictions that hath befallen other Saints; have you reckoned up the afflictions that befell Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Asaph, Heman, the Prophets and Apostles; if you have, you will say that your afflictions ⟨p. 240⟩are no afflictions to those that have befallen them; their lives were filled up with sorrows and sufferings, but so are not yours; therefore kiss the rod and be silent. It may be if thou lookest but upon thy relations, thy friends, thy neighbours, thou mayest find many whose afflictions for number and weight do much ou• weigh thine; therefore be silent, murmur not, hold-thy peace.
Fifthly, If you cast up a just and righteous account, you will finde1 that they are not so many as the afflictions that hath befallen other Saints; have you reckoned up the afflictions that befell Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Asaph, Heman, the Prophets and Apostles; if you have, you will say that your afflictions ⟨p. 240⟩are no afflictions to those that have befallen them; their lives were filled up with sorrows and sufferings, but so are not yours; therefore kiss the rod and bee silent. It may bee if thou lookest but upon thy relations, thy friends, thy neighbours, thou mayest finde many whose afflictions for number and weight do much ou• weigh thine; therefore bee silent, murmure not, hold-thy peace.
- 1Read but the ten persecutions, and thou wilt be full of this opinion.