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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 7
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Secondly, All their temptations shall be physical, their temptations shall be happy preventions of great abominations, 2 Cor. 12. 7. Lest I should be exalted, lest I 1should be exalted, it is twice in that one verse, he begins with it, and he ends with it; if he had not been buffeted, he might have been more highly exalted in his own conceit, than he was before in his ecstasy. Ah tempted souls! you say you are naught, very naught, but had it not been for the school of temptation, you might have been stark naught before this time; you say you are sick, you are even sick to death, why your sickness had before this time killed you, had not temptations been physical to you; you are bad under temptation, but doubtless you would have been much worse, had not God made temptation a diet-drink to you.
Secondly, All their temptations shall bee physical, their temptations shall bee happy preventions of great abominations, 2 Cor. 12. 7. Lest I should bee exalted, lest I 1should bee exalted, it is twice in that one verse, hee begins with it, and hee ends with it; if hee had not been buffeted, hee might have been more highly exalted in his own conceit, than hee was before in his exstacie. Ah tempted souls! you say you are naught, very naught, but had it not been for the school of temptation, you might have been stark naught before this time; you say you are sick, you are even sick to death, why your sicknesse had before this time killed you, had not temptations been physical to you; you are bad under temptation, but doubtless you would have been much worse, had not God made temptation a diet-drink to you.
- 1Those soldiers that are most in fighting, are least in sinning, and most free from diseases.Those souldiers that are most in fighting, are least in sinning, and most free from diseases.