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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
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Fifthly, God delays and puts off his people, to enhance, to raise the price of mercy, the price of deliverance; we usually set the highest price, the greatest esteem upon such things that we obtain with greatest difficulty; what we dearly1 buy, that we highly prize; the more ⟨p. 340⟩sighs, tears, weepings, waitings, watchings, strivings, & earnest longings, this mercy and that deliverance, and the other favour costs us, the more highly we shall value them; when a delayed mercy comes, it •astes more like a mercy, it sticks more like a mercy, it warms more like a mercy, it works more like a mercy, and it endears the heart to God like a mercy, more than any other mercy that a man enjoys.
Fifthly, God delaies and puts off his people, to enhaunce, to raise the price of mercy, the price of deliverance; wee usually set the highest price, the greatest esteem upon such things that wee obtain with greatest difficulty; what we dearly1 buy, that we highly prize; the more ⟨p. 340⟩sighs, tears, weepings, waitings, watchings, strivings, & earnest longings, this mercy and that deliverance, and the other favour costs us, the more highly wee shall value them; when a delaied mercy comes, it •astes more like a mercy, it sticks more like a mercy, it warms more like a mercy, it works more like a mercy, and it endears the heart to God like a mercy, more than any other mercy that a man enjoyes.