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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.
First, That the worst that God doth to his people in this world, is in order to the making of them a Heaven on Earth; he brings them into a wilderness, but it is, that he may speak comfortably to them: he1 casts them into the fiery furnace, ⟨p. 367⟩but it is, that they may have more of his company; do the stones come thick and threefold about Stephens ears? it is but to knock2 him the nearer to Christ, the corner-stone, &c.
First, That the worst that God doth to his people in this world, is in order to the making of them a Heaven on Earth; hee brings them into a wilderness, but it is, that hee may speak comfortably to them: he1 casts them into the fiery furnace, ⟨p. 367⟩but it is, that they may have more of his company; doe the stones come thick and threefold about Stephens ears? it is but to knock2 him the nearer to Christ, the corner-stone, &c.
Secondly, If you would be silent, then hold fast this principle, viz. That what God wills is best;1