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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 6
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Secondly, It may be thou art under some present distemper that dis-enables thee to make a right judgement of the different dealings1 of God with thy self and others: When the mind is distempered, and the brain troubled, many things seem to be that are not, and then little things seem very great. Oh! the strange passions, the strange imaginations, the ⟨p. 254⟩strange conclusions, that attend a distempered judgement.
Secondly, It may bee thou art under some present distemper that dis-inables thee to make a right judgement of the different dealings1 of God with thy self and others: When the mind is distempered, and the brain troubled, many things seem to bee that are not, and then little things seem very great. Oh! the strange passions, the strange imaginations, the ⟨p. 254⟩strange conclusions, that attend a distempered judgement.
- 1Deut. 28. 28. Good men are sometimes strangely besotted, and infatuated.
I have read of a foolish Emperor, who to show the greatness of his City, made show of many Spiders; when the mind is disturbed, men many times say they know not what, and do they know not what; it may be when these clouds are blown over, and thy mind cleared, and thy judgement settled, thou wilt be of another opinion. The supplicant woman appealed from drunken King Philip, to sober King Philip; it is good to appeal from a distempered mind, to a clear composed mind, for that is the way to make a righteous judgement of all the righteous dispensations of God, both towards our selves, and towards others.