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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.
I have read, that in some Countries they have a certain Art of drawing of Pigeons to their Dove-houses in those Countries by anointing the wings of one of them with sweet ointment, and that Pigeon being sent abroad, doth by the fragrancy of that ointment decoy, invite, and allure others to that house where it self is a domestic; such is the fragrancy of a ⟨p. 306⟩good name, that it draws other men after the savour thereof. Among all sorts and ranks of men in the world, a good name hath an attractive faculty; it is a precious ointment that draws hearers to attend good Preachers, Patients to attend Physicians, Clients to attend Lawyers, Scholars to attend School-masters, and Customers to attend Shopkeepers, who with Demetrius, 1hath a good report of all good men: Let a mans good name be but up, and he cannot easily want any thing that men or money can help him to; a good name will bring a man into favour and keep a man in favour with all that are good; therefore saith the Moralists,
I have read, that in some Countries they have a certain Art of drawing of Pigeons to their Dovehouses in those Countries by anointing the wings of one of them with sweet ointment, and that Pigeon being sent abroad, doth by the fragrancy of that ointment dequoy, invite, and allure others to that house where it self is a domestick; such is the fragrancy of a ⟨p. 306⟩good name, that it draws other men after the savour thereof. Among all sorts and ranks of men in the world, a good name hath an attractive faculty; it is a precious ointment that draws hearers to attend good Preachers, Patients to attend Physicians, Clients to attend Lawyers, Scholars to attend School-masters, and Customers to attend Shopkeepers, who with Demetrius, 1hath a good report of all good men: Let a mans good name bee but up, and hee cannot easily want any thing that men or mony can help him to; a good name will bring a man into favour and keep a man in favour with all that are good; therefore saith the Moralists,
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