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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
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Fourthly, There is a sullen Silence: Many to gratify an humour, a lust, are sullenly silent; these are troubled with a dumb Devil, which was the worst Devil of all the Devils you read of in the Scripture, Mark 9. 17,—28.
Fourthly, There is a sullen Silence: Many to gratifie an humour, a lust, are sullenly silent; these are troubled with a dumb Devil, which was the worst Devil of all the Devils you read of in the Scripture, Mark 9. 17,—28.
Pliny in his natural History maketh1 mention of a certain people in the Indies upon the River Ganges, called Astomi, that have no mouth, ⟨p. 11⟩but do only feed upon the smell of herbs and flowers. Certainly there is a Generation amongst us, who when they are under the afflicting hand of God, have no mouths to plead with God, no lips to praise God, nor no tongues to justify God; these are possessed with a dumb Devil, and this dumb Devil had possest Ahab for a time, 1 King. 21. 4. And Ahab came into his house, heavy and displeased, and laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. Ahab's ambitious humour, his covetous humour, being crossed, he is resolved to starve himself, and to dye of the sullens. A sullen Silence is both a sin and a punishment; no Devil frets and vexes, wears and wastes the spirits of a man, like this dumb Devil, like this sullen Silence.
Pliny in his natural History maketh1 mention of a certain people in the Indies upon the River Ganges, called Astomi, that have no mouth,