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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.
Surely by these God will communicate more of himself unto me, Hos. 2. 14.
Surely by these God will communicate more of himself unto mee, Hos. 2. 14.
Surely by these afflictions the Lord will draw out my heart more and more to seek him, Isa. 26. 16. ⟨p. 31⟩Tatianus told the Heathen Greeks, that when they were sick, then they would send for their gods to be with them, as Agamemnon did at the siege of Troy, send for his ten Counsellors. Hos. 5. 15. In their afflictions they will seek me early, or as the Hebrew hath it, they will morning me; in times of affliction Christians will industriously, speedily, early seek unto the Lord.
Surely by these afflictions the Lord will draw out my heart more and more to seek him, Isa. 26. 16. ⟨p. 31⟩Tatianus told the Heathen Greeks, that when they were sick, then they would send for their gods to be with them, as Agamemnon did at the siege of Troy, send for his ten Counsellors. Hos. 5. 15. In their afflictions they will seek mee early, or as the Hebrew hath it, they will morning mee; in times of affliction Christians will industriously, speedily, early seek unto the Lord.