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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.
Fifthly, If you would be silent under your afflictions, then you must hold fast this principle, viz. 1That the best way in this world to have thine own will, is to lye down in the will of God, and quietly to resign up thy self to the good will and pleasure of God. Luther was a man that could have any thing of ⟨p. 370⟩God, and why? why because he submitted his will to the will of God, he lost his will in the will of God. Oh soul! it shall be even as thou wilt, if thy will be swallowed up in the will of God.
Fifthly, If you would bee silent under your afflictions, then you must hold fast this principle, viz. 1That the best way in this world to have thine own will, is to lye down in the will of God, and quietly to resign up thy self to the good will and pleasure of God. Luther was a man that could have any thing of ⟨p. 370⟩God, and why? why because hee submitted his will to the will of God, hee lost his will in the will of God. Oh soul! it shall bee even as thou wilt, if thy will bee swallowed up in the will of God.
- 1Matth. 15. 21,—29
Sixthly and lastly, If thou wouldest be silent under the afflicting hand of God, then thou must hold1 fast to this principle, viz. That God will make times of affliction, to be times of special manifestations of divine love and favour to thee. Tiburtius saw a Paradise when he walked upon hot burning coals. I could confirm this by a cloud of witnesses, but that I am upon a close. Ah Christians! as ever you would be quiet and silent under the Smarting Rod, hold fast to these principles, and keep them as your lives. But