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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, If you would be silent, then hold fast this principle, viz. That what God wills is best;1 when he wills sickness, sickness is better than health; when he wills weakness, weakness is better than strength; when he wills want, want is better than wealth; when he wills reproach, reproach is better than honour; when he wills death, death is better than life. As God is wisdom it self, and so knows that which is best, so he is goodness it self, and therefore cannot do any thing but that which is best; therefore hold thy peace.
Secondly, If you would bee silent, then hold fast this principle, viz. That what God wills is best;1 when hee wills sickness, sickness is better than health; when hee wills weakness, weakness is better than strength; when hee wills want, want is better than wealth; when hee wills reproach, reproach is better than honour; when hee wills death, death is better than life. As God is wisdome it self, and so knows that which is best, so hee is goodness it self, and therefore cannot do any thing but that which is best; therefore hold thy peace.
Thirdly, If thou wouldest be silent under thy greatest afflictions, then hold fast to this principle, viz. That the Lord will bear thee company ⟨p. 368⟩in all thy afflictions, Isa. 41. 10, ch. 43. 2. Psal. 23. 4. Psal. 90. 15.