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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 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.
Whatsoever commodity you lose, be sure yet to preserve that Jewel of a good name; a Christian ⟨p. 307⟩should be most chary of his good name, for a good name answers to all things, as Solomon speaks of money, Ego si bonam famam servasso, sat dives ero; if I may but keep a good name, I have wealth enough said1 the Heathen; a Christian should rather forgo gold, than let go a good name, and he that robs a Christian of his good name, is a worse thief, than he that robs him of his purse, and better deserves a hanging than he, &c. But
Whatsoever commodity you lose, bee sure yet to preserve that Jewel of a good name; a Christian ⟨p. 307⟩should bee most chary of his good name, for a good name answers to all things, as Solomon speaks of mony, Ego si bonam famam servasso, sat dives ero; if I may but keep a good name, I have wealth enough said1 the Heathen; a Christian should rather forgo gold, than let go a good name, and hee that robs a Christian of his good name, is a worse thief, than hee that robs him of his purse, and better deserves a hanging than hee, &c. But
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Secondly, It must be granted, that a good name once lost, is very hardly recovered again, a man may more easily recover a lost friend, a lost estate, than a lost name; a good name is like a Princely structure, quickly ruined, but long a rearing; the Father of the Prodigal could say of his lost son,1 This my Son was lost, but is found, he was dead, but is alive; but how few Christians can say, this my good name was lost, but is found, it was dead, but now it lives. As when