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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.
Fourthly, By Gods hiding his face, and withdrawing himself from thee, thou wil• be enabled more feelingly, and more experimentally to sympathize with others1 ⟨p. 296⟩and to have compassion on others that are or may be in the dark, and forsaken of God, as now thou art. Heb. 13. 2. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being your selves also in the body. It is observed of the Bees, that2 when one is sick, they all mourn; and of the Sheep, that if one of them be faint, the rest of the flock will stand between it and the Sun, until it be revived; in the natural body, if one member grieve, and is in pain, all suffer with it; when a thorn is got into the foot, how doth the back bow, and the eyes pry, and the hands go to pluck the thorn out; none so compassionate towards deserted souls, as those who have been deserted and forsaken of God themselves. Oh! they know what an evil & a bitter thing it is to be left and forsaken of God; and therefore their bowels, their compassions run out much to such, yea most to such; they know that there is no affliction ⟨p. 297⟩no misery, no hell, to that of being forsaken of God.
Fourthly, By Gods hiding his face, and withdrawing himself from thee, thou wil• bee inabled more feelingly, and more experimentally to sympathize with others1 ⟨p. 296⟩and to have compassion on others that are or may bee in the dark, and forsaken of God, as now thou art. Heb. 13. 2. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being your selves also in the body. It is observed of the Bees, that