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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
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.
2 By Gods withdrawing from his people, he prevents his peoples withdrawing from him; and so by an affliction he prevents sin: for God to withdraw from me is but1 my affliction, but for me to withdraw from God, that is my sin; and therefore it were better for me that God should withdraw a thousand times from me, than that I should once withdraw from God: God therefore forsakes us, that we may not forsake our God; God sometimes hides himself, that we may cleave the closer to him, and hang the faster upon him. As the ⟨p. 292⟩Mother hides her self from the child for a time, that the child may cleave the closer, and hang the faster upon her all the day long; God sometimes hid himself from David, Psal. 30. 7. Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled, I was alamort; well, and is that all? no, vers. 8. I cried to thee O Lord, and unto the Lord I made supplication. Now he cries louder, and cleaves closer to God than ever; so in that, Psal. 63. 1, 2. O God, thou art my God, early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in thy Sanctuary. Well, and how do these withdrawings of God work? why this you may see in verse 8. My soul followeth hard after thee, or as the Hebrew reads it, my soul cleaveth after thee; look as the husband cleaves to his wife, so doth my soul cleave to the Lord, the Psalmist now follows God even hard2 at heels, as we say▪ But
2 By Gods withdrawing from his people, hee prevents his peoples withdrawing from him; and so by an affliction hee prevents sin: for God to withdraw from mee is but1 my affliction, but for mee to withdraw from God, that is my sin; and therefore it were better for mee that God should withdraw a thousand times from mee, than that I should once withdraw from God: God therefore forsakes us, that wee may not forsake our God; God sometimes hides himself, that wee may cleave the clser to him, and hang the faster upon him. As the