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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.
Quest. 2 What doth a prudent, a gracious, a holy Silence include?
Answer 1 It includes and takes in these eight things.
First, It includes a sight of God, and an acknowledgement of God, as the author of all the afflictions ⟨p. 17⟩that come upon us: And this you have plain in the Text, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. The Psalmist1 looks through secondary causes, to the first cause, and so sits mute before the Lord. There is no sickness so little, but God hath a finger in it, though it be but the aching of the little finger. As the Scribe is more eyed, and properly said to write, than the pen; and he that maketh and keepeth the Clock, is more properly said to make it go and strike, than the wheels and weights that hang upon it; and as every work-man is more eyed, and properly said to effect his works, rather than the tools which he useth as his instruments: so the Lord who is the chief Agent and mover in all actions, and who hath the greatest hand in all our afflictions, is more to be eyed and owned, than any inferior or subordinate causes whatsoever. So Job, he beheld God in all, Job 1. ⟨p. 18⟩