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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 8
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.
how shall I give thee up? O! I cannot give thee up, I will not give thee up. Gods love is always like himself, unchangeable, his love is everlasting, it is a love that never decays, nor waxes cold, it is like the stone Asbestos, of which Solinus writes, that being once hot, it can never be cooled again.
how shall I give thee up? O! I cannot give thee up, I will not give thee up. Gods love is alwaies like himself, unchangeable, his love is everlasting, it is a love that never decaies, nor waxes cold, it is like the stone Albestos, of which Solinus writes, that being once hot, it can never bee cooled again.
Fourthly, Though the Lord hath hid his face from thee, yet certainly thou hast his secret presence with thee. God is present, ⟨p. 285⟩when he is seemingly absent. The 1Lord was in this place, and I knew it not, saith Jacob. The Sun many times shines when we do not see it, and the husband is many times in the house when the wife doth not know it. God is in thy house, he is in thy heart, though thou feest him not, thou feelest him not, though thou hearest him not, Heb. 13. 5. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, or as it may be rendered according to the Greek, I will not not leave thee, neither will I not not forsake thee. Art thou not now drawn out to prize God, and Christ, and his love, above all the world? yes; art thou not now drawn out to give the Lord many a secret visit,2 in a corner behind the door, in some dark hole where none can see thee, nor hear thee but the Lord?3 yes; are there not strong breathings, pantings and longings after a clearer vision of God, and after a fuller fruition of God? yes; art thou not more affected and afflicted with the withdrawings of Christ,