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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 10
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Secondly, Though the Lord doth defer and delay you for a time, yet he will come, and mercy and deliverance shall certainly1 come; he will not always forget the cry of the poor. Heb. 10. 37, For yet a little little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. Hab. 2. 3. The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lye: though it tarry, wait for it. God will come, and mercy will come; though for the present thy Sun be set, and thy God seems to neglect thee, yet thy Sun will rise again, and thy God will answer all thy prayers, and supply all thy necessities. Psal. 71. 20, 21. Thou which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side, Three Martyrs being brought to the stake, ⟨p. 329⟩and all bound, one of them slips from under his chain (to admiration) and falls down upon the ground, and wrestled earnestly with God, for the sense of his love, and God gave it in to him then, and so he came and embraced the stake, and died cheerfully a glorious Martyr. God delays him, till he was at the stake, and till he was bound, and then sweetly lets out himself to him.
Secondly, Though the Lord doth defer and delay you for a time, yet hee will come, and mercy and deliverance shall certainly1 come; hee will not alwaies forget the cry of the poor. Heb. 10. 37, For yet a little little while, and hee that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. Hab. 2. 3. The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lye: though it tarry, wait for it. God will come, and mercy will come; though for the present thy Sun bee set, and thy God seems to neglect thee, yet thy Sun will rise again, and thy God will answer all thy prayers, and supply all thy necessities.