A77618:351
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
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.
Secondly, That they may have the greater experience of his power, grace▪ love, and mercy in the close. Christ loved Martha and her Sisters and Lazarus, yet1 he defers his coming for several days, and Lazarus must die, be put in the grave, and lye there till he stinks; and why so? but that they might have the greater experience of his power, grace and love towar[…] them.
Secondly, That they may have the greater experience of his power, grace▪ love, and mercy in the close. Christ loved Martha and her Sisters and Lazarus, yet1 hee defers his coming for several daies, and Lazarus must die, bee put in the grave, and lye there till hee stinks; and why so? but that they might have the greater experience of his power, grace and love towar〈…〉 them.
Thirdly, To sharpen his children's appetite, and to put a greater edge upon their desires, to make1 them cry out as a woman in travel, or as a man that is in danger of drowning. God delays, that his people may set upon him with ⟨p. 336⟩greater strength and importunity▪ he puts them off, that they may put on with more life and vigour; God seems to be cold, that he may make us the more hot; he seems to be slack, that he may make us the more earnest; he seems to be backward, that he may make us the more forward in pressing upon him; the Father delays the child, that he may make him the more eager, and so doth God his, that he may make them the more divinely violent. When Balaam