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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.
Dear hearts,
The choicest Saints are born to troubles, as the1 sparks fly upwards. Many are the troubles of the Righteous; if they were many, and not troubles, (then as it is in the Proverb) the more the merrier; or if they were troubles, and not many, then the fewer the better cheer; but God who is infinite in wisdom, and matchless in goodness, hath ordered troubles, yea many troubles to come trooping in upon us on every side. As our mercies, so ⟨image 4⟩our crosses seldom come single, they usually come treading one upon the heels of another; they are like April showers, no sooner is one over, but another comes. And yet Christians, it is mercy, it is rich mercy, that every affliction is not an execution, that every correction is not a damnation. The higher the waters rise, the nearer Noah's Ark was lifted up to Heaven; the more thy afflictions are increased, the more thy heart shall be raised Heaven-wards.
THe choicest Saints are born to troubles, as the1 sparks fly upwards. Many are the troubles of the Righteous; if they were many, and not troubles, (then as it is in the Proverb) the more the merrier; or if they were troubles, and not many, then the fewer the better chear; but God who is infinite in wisdome, and matchless in goodness, hath ordered troubles, yea many troubles to come trooping in upon us on every side. As our mercies, so ⟨image 4⟩our crosses seldome come single, they usually come treading one upon the heels of another; they are like April showers, no sooner is one over, but another comes. And yet Christians, it is mercy, it is rich mercy, that every affliction is not an execution, that every correction is not a damnation. The higher the waters rise, the nearer Noahs Ark was lifted up to Heaven; the more thy afflictions are encreased, the more thy heart shall bee raised Heaven-wards.