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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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Thus Aaron had an eye to the sovereignty of God, and that silences1 him. And Job had an eye upon the majesty of God, and that stills him. And Ely had an eye upon the authority and presence of God, and that quiets him. A man ⟨p. 21⟩never comes to humble himself, nor to be silent under the hand of God, till he comes to see the hand of God to be a mighty hand, 1 Pet. 5. 6. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God. When men look upon the hand of God as a weak hand, a feeble hand, a low hand, a mean hand, their hearts rise against his hand, Who is▪ the Lord, said Pharaoh, that I should obey his voice? Exod. 5. 2. And till Pharaoh came to see the hand of God, as a mighty hand, and to feel it as a mighty hand, he would not let Israel go. When Tiribazus a Noble Persian was arrested, at first he drew out his sword and defended himself, but when they charged him in the Kings name, and informed him that they came from the King, and were commanded to bring him to the King, he yielded willingly. So when afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur, and grumble, and struggle and strive even to the death, before we shall yield to that God that ⟨p. 22⟩strikes, till we come to see his majesty and authority, till we come2 to see him as the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. It is such a sight of God as this, that makes the heart to stoop under his Almighty hand. The Thracians being3 ignorant of the dignity and majesty of God, when it thundered and lightened, used to express their madness and folly in shooting their arrows against Heaven, threatening-wise. As a sight of his grace cheers the soul, so a sight of his greatness and glory silences the soul. But
Thus Aaron had an eye to the soveraignty of God, and that silences