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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
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, Consider, that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, is all the Hell that ever you shall have; here you have your Hell, hereafter you shall have your Heaven; this is the worst of your condition, the best is to come. Lazarus had his Hell first, his Heaven1 last; but Dives had his Heaven first, and his Hell at last; thou hast all thy pains, and pangs, and throws here that ever thou shalt have, thy ease, and rest, and pleasure is to come; here you have all your bitter, your sweet is to come; here you have your sorrows, your ⟨p. 347⟩joys are to come; here you have all your winter nights, your summer days are to come; here you have your passion week, your Ascension day is to come; here you have your evil things, your good things are to come; death will put a period to all thy sins, and to all thy sufferings, and it will be an inlet to those joys, delights and contents that shall never have end; and therefore hold thy peace, and be silent before the Lord.
Secondly, Consider, that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, is all the Hell that ever you shall have; here you have your Hell, hereafter you shall have your Heaven; this is the worst of your condition, the best is to come. Lazarus had his Hell first, his Heaven1 last; but Dives had his Heaven first, and his Hell at last; thou hast all thy pains, and pangs, and throws here that ever thou shalt have, thy ease, and rest, and pleasure is to come; here you have all your bitter, your sweet is to come; here you have your sorrows, your ⟨p. 347⟩joyes are to come; here you have all your winter nights, your summer daies are to come; here you have your passion week, your Ascension day is to come; here you have your evil things, your good things are to come; death will put a period to all thy sins, and to all thy sufferings, and it will bee an inlet to those joyes, delights and contents that shall never have end; and therefore hold thy peace, and be silent before the Lord.