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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.
Fourthly, The fourth soul-silencing Conclusion you have in vers. 32. But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies; in wrath God remembers mercy, Hab. 3. 2. Weeping may endure for a ⟨p. 36⟩night, but joy cometh in the morning, Psal. 30. 5. their mourning shall last but till morning; God will turn their winters night into a summers day, their sighing into singing, their grief into gladness, their mourning into music, their bitter into sweet, their wilderness into a paradise: the life of a Christian is filled up with interchanges of sickness and health, weakness and strength, want and wealth, disgrace and honour, crosses and comforts, miseries and mercies, joys and sorrows, mirth and mourning; all honey would harm us, all wormwood would undo us; a composition of both is the best way in the world to keep our souls in a healthy constitution; it is best, and most for the health of the soul, that the South-wind of mercy, and the North-wind of adversity, do both blow upon it: And though every wind that blows, shall blow good to the Saints, yet certainly their sins die most, and their graces thrive best, when they are under ⟨p. 37⟩the drying, nipping, Northwind of calamity, as well as under the warm cherishing South-wind of mercy and prosperity.
Fourthly, The fourth soul-silencing Conclusion you have in vers. 32. But though hee cause grief, yet will hee have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies; in wrath God remembers mercy, Hab. 3. 2. Weeping may endure for a ⟨p. 36⟩night, but joy cometh in the morning, Psal. 30. 5. their mourning shall last but till morning; God will turn their winters night into a summers day, their sighing into singing, their grief into gladness, their mourning into musick, their bitter into sweet, their wilderness into a paradise: the life of a Christian is filled up with interchanges of sickness and health, weakness and strength, want and wealth, disgrace and honour, crosses and comforts, miseries and mercies, joyes and sorrows, mirth and mourning; all hony would harm us, all wormwood would undo us; a composition of both is the best way in the world to keep our souls in a healthy constitution; it is best, and most for the health of the soul, that the South-wind of mercy, and the North-wind of adversity, do both blow upon it: And though every wind that blows, shall blow good to the Saints, yet certainly their sins die most, and their graces thrive best, when they are under