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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.
one veins bleeding will let out all the vitals, as well as more; one Fly will spoil a whole box of ointment; ⟨p. 359⟩one bitter herb all the pottage; by eating one Apple, Adam lost Paradise; one lick of honey endangered Jonathans life; one Achan was a trouble to all Israel; one Jo••h raises a storm, and becomes lading too heavy for a whole ship; so one unmortified lust, will be able to raise very strange and strong storms and tempests in the soul, in the days of affliction; and therefore as you would have a blessed calm, and quietness in your own spirits under your sharpest trials, set throughly upon the work of mortification. Gideon had seventy sons,1 and but one bastard, and yet that bastard destroyed all his seventy sons. Ah Christian! thou dost not know what a world of mischief one unmortified lust may do; and therefore let nothing satisfy thee but the blood of all thy lusts.
one veins bleeding will let out all the vitals, as well as more; one Fly will spoil a whole box of ointment; ⟨p. 359⟩one bitter herb all the pottage; by eating one Apple, Adam lost Paradise; one lick of honey endangered Jonathans life; one Achan was a trouble to all Israel; one Jo••h raises a storm, and becomes lading too heavy for a whole ship; so one unmortified lust, will bee able to raise very strange and strong storms and tempests in the soul, in the daies of affliction; and therefore as you would have a blessed calm, and quietness in your own spirits under your sharpest trials, set throughly upon the work of mortification. Gideon had seventy sons,1 and but one bastard, and yet that bastard destroyed all his seventy sons. Ah Christian! thou dost not know what a world of mischief one unmortified lust may do; and therefore let nothing satisfie thee but the blood of all thy lusts.