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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, There is a Politic Silence: Many are silent out of policy, should they not be silent, they should lay themselves more open, either to the rage and fury of men, or else to the plots and designs of men; to prevent which they are silent, and will lay their hands upon their mouths, that others may not lay their hands upon their estates, lives, or liberties. And Saul also went home to Giheah, 1and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. But the Children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? and they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he held his peace, or was a• though he had been deaf. This new King, being but newly entered upon ⟨p. 8⟩his Kingly Government, and observing his condition to be but mean and low, his friends but few, and his enemies many and potent, Sons of Belial, i. e. men without yoke (as the word signifies) men that were desperately wicked, that were marked out for hell, that were even incarnate Devils, who would neither submit to reason, nor Religion, nor be governed by the Laws of Nature, nor of Nations, nor yet by the Laws of God; now this young Prince, to prevent sedition and rebellion,2 blood and destruction, prudently and politicly chooses rather to lay his hand upon his mouth, than to take a Woolf by the ear, or a Lion by the beard; he wanted neither wit nor will to be mute, he turns a deaf ear to all they say, his unsettled condition requiring Silence.
Secondly, There is a Politick Silence: Many are silent out of policy, should they not bee silent, they should lay themselves more open, either to the rage and fury of men, or else to the plots and designs of men; to prevent which they are silent, and will lay their hands upon their mouths, that others may not lay their hands upon their estates, lives, or liberties. And Saul also went home to Giheah, 1and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. But the Children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? and they despised him, and brought him no presents; but hee held his peace, or was a• though hee had been deaf. This new King, being but newly entred upon