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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 9
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.
First, That it must be granted, that a good name is one of the choicest Jewels in a Christians Crown; though a great name many times is little worth, yet a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, it is better to have a good name abroad, than silver or ⟨p. 305⟩gold laid up in a chest at home. A good name is better than precious ointment, Eccles. 7. 1. Precious ointments were greatly in use, and highly esteemed of among the Israelites, in those Eastern parts; they1 were laid up among the most precious things even in the Kings treasury. Sweet ointments can but affect the smell, and comfort the brain, and delight the outward man; they reach not the best part, the noble part, viz. the soul, the conscience of a Christian; but a good name doth both; what is the perfume of the nostrils, to the perfume of the heart?
First, That it must bee granted, that a good name is one of the choicest Jewels in a Christians Crown; though a great name many times is little worth, yet a good name is rather to bee chosen than great riches, it is better to have a good name abroad, than silver or ⟨p. 305⟩gold laid up in a chest at home. A good name is better than precious ointment, Eccles. 7. 1. Precious ointments were greatly in use, and highly esteemed of among the Israelites, in those Eastern parts; they1 were laid up among the most precious things even in the Kings treasury. Sweet ointments can but affect the smell, and comfort the brain, and delight the outward man; they reach not the best part, the noble part, viz. the soul, the conscience of a Christian; but a good name doth both; what is the perfume of the nostrils, to the perfume of the heart?
- 1Isa. 39. 2 A good renown is better than a golden girdle, saith the French Proverb.