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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.
The Babylonish captivity was the sorest, the heaviest affliction that ever God inflicted upon any people under Heaven, witness that 1 Sam. 12. & Daniel 9. 12, &c. yet under those smart afflictions, wisdom is justified of her children, Neh. 9. 33. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly, 1 Sam. 18. The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled against him. A holy Silence shines in nothing more, than in an humble justifying and clearing of God from all that which a corrupt heart is apt enough to charge God with in the day of affliction. God, in that he is good, can give nothing, nor do nothing but that which is good, others do frequently, ⟨p. 28⟩he cannot possibly, saith Luther, in Psal. 120.
The Babylonish captivity was the sorest, the heaviest affliction that ever God inflicted upon any people under Heaven, witnesse that 1 Sam. 12. & Daniel 9. 12, &c. yet under those smart afflictions, wisdome is justified of her children, Neh. 9. 33. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but wee have done wickedly, 1 Sam. 18. The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled against him. A holy Silence shines in nothing more, than in an humble justifying and clearing of God from all that which a corrupt heart is apt enough to charge God with in the day of affliction. God, in that hee is good, can give nothing, nor do nothing but that which is good, others do frequently, ⟨p. 28⟩