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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
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Fifthly, Though God be gone, yet he will return again; though your Sun be now set in a cloud, yet it will rise again; though sorrow may abide for a night, yet joy1 comes in the morning. A Christians mourning shall last but till morning, Micah 7. 19. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us. Cant. 3. 4. It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found ⟨p. 288⟩him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and I would not let him go, &c. Psal. 94. 19. In the multitude of▪ my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul. Isa. 54. 7, 8, 10. For a moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer; for the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee; neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. God will not suffer his whole displeasure to arise upon his people, neither will he forsake them totally or finally; the Saints shall taste but some sips of the cup of Gods wrath, sinners shall drink the dregs, their storm shall end in a calm, and their winter night shall be turned into a summers day. There was a woman who was thirteen years under desertion, which was so vehement, that for the most part ⟨p. 289⟩of her time, she was fain to keep her bed through weakness: A godly Minister, who was affected with her condition, went to comfort her, and to pray with her, but when he came and offered to do it, she shrieked out, utterly refusing and forbidding him to pray with her, for said she, I have too many abused mercies to answer for already; yet he would not be put off, but prayed by her, and so prevailed with God on her behalf, that the next morning she was delivered from all her fears, and had such exceeding joy, that the like hath rarely been heard of; the Lord that had been long withdrawn from her, returned at length in a way of singular mercy to her. There was