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A77618	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.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4962A; Thomason E1876_1; ESTC R209789	146,060	409

on the other side of him and there hee sees infernal fiends in fearful shapes amazing and terrifying of him and waiting to receive his despairing soul as soon as shee shall take her leave of his wretched body hee looks above him and there hee sees the gates of Heaven shut against him hee looks beneath him and there hee sees hell gaping for him and under these sad sights hee is full of secret conclusions against his own soul there is mercy for others saith the despairing soul but none for mee grace and favour for others but none for mee pardon and peace for others but none for mee As that despairing Pope said the cross could do him no good because hee had so often sold it blessedness and happiness for others but none for mee there is no help there is no hope no Jer. 2. 25. ch 18. 1● this seems to be his case who died with this desperate saying in his mouth spes fortuna v●lete farewel life and hope together Now under these dismal apprehensions and sad conclusions about its present and future condition the despairing soul sits silent being filled with amazement and astonishment Psal 77. 4. I am so troubled that I cannot speak But this is not the Silence here meant But Seventhly and lastly There is a prudent Silence a holy a gracious Silence a Silence that springs from prudent principles from holy principles and from gracious causes and considerations and this is the Silence here meant And this I shall fully discover in my Answers to the second Question which is this Quest 2 What doth a prudent a gracious a holy Silence include Answer 1 It includes and takes in these eight things First It includes a sight of God and an acknowledgement of God as the author of all the afflictions that come upon us And this you have plain in the Text I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it The Psalmist In second causes many times a Christian may see much envy hatred malice pride c. But in the first cause he can see nothing but grace and mercy sweetness and goodness looks through secondary causes to the first cause and so sits mute before the Lord. There is no sickness so little but God hath a finger in it though it bee but the aking of the little finger As the Scribe is more eyed and properly said to write than the pen and hee that maketh and keepeth the Clock is more properly said to make it go and strike than the wheels and weights that hang upon it and as every work-man is more eyed and properly said to effect his works rather than the tools which hee useth as his instruments so the Lord who is the chief Agent and mover in all actions and who hath the greatest hand in all our afflictions is more to bee eyed and owned than any inferiour or subordinate causes whatsoever So Job hee beheld God in all Job 1. 21. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Had hee not seen God in the affliction hee would have cried out Oh these wretched Chaldeans they have plundred and spoiled mee These wicked Sabeans they have robbed and wronged mee Job discerns Gods Commission in the Chaldeans and the Sabeans hands and then laies his own hand upon his mouth So Aaron beholding the hand of God in the untimely death of his two sons holds his peace Levit. 10. 3. the sight of God in this sad stroak is a bridle both to his mind and mouth hee neither mutters nor murmurs So Joseph saw the hand of God in his brethrens selling of him into Egypt Gen. 45. 8. and that silences him Men that see not God in an affliction are easily cast into a feaverish fit they will quickly bee in a flame and when their passions are up and their hearts on fire they will begin to bee sawcy and make no bones of telling God to his teeth that they do well to bee angry Jonah 4. 8 9. Such as will not acknowledge God to bee the author of all their afflictions will bee ready enough to fall in with that mad principle of the Manachees who maintained the Devil to bee the Author of all calamities As if there could bee any evil of affliction in the City and the Lord have no hand in it Amos 3. 6. Such as can see the ordering hand of God in all their afflictions will with David lay their hands upon their mouths when the Rod of God is upon their backs 2 Sam. 16. 11 12. If Gods hand bee not seen in the affliction the heart will do nothing but fret and rage under affliction Secondly It includes and takes in some holy gracious apprehensions of the Majesty Soveraignty Dignity Authority and presence of that God under whose afflicting hand we are Hab. 2. 20. But the Lord is in his holy Temple let all the earth bee silent or as the Hebrew reads it bee silent all the earth before his face When God would have all the people of the earth to bee husht quiet and silent before him hee would have them to behold him in his Temple where hee sits in state in majesty and glory Zephan 1. 7. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God Chat not murmure not repine not quarrel not Whist stand mute bee silent lay thy hand on thy mouth when his hand is upon thy back who is totus oculus all-eye to see as well as all hand to punish As the eyes of a well-drawn picture are fastened on thee which way soever thou turnest so are the eies of the Lord and therefore thou hast cause to stand mute before him Thus Aaron had an eye to the soveraignty of God and that silences Levit. 10. 3 Job 37. 23 24. 1 Sam. 3. 11 19. him And Job had an eye upon the majesty of God and that stills him And Elie had an eye upon the authority and presence of God and that quiets him A man never comes to humble himself nor to bee silent under the hand of God till hee comes to see the hand of God to bee 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 hee would not let Israel go When Tiribazus a Noble Persian was arrested at first hee 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 yeelded willingly So when afflictions arrest us we shall murmure and grumble and struggle and strive even to the death before wee shall yeeld to that God that

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 the drying nipping North-wind of calamity as well as under the warm cherishing South-wind of mercy and prosperity Fifthly The fifth soul-quieting Conclusion you have in vers 33. For hee doth not afflict willingly or as the Hebrew hath it from his heart nor gr●eve the children of men The Church concludes that Gods heart was not in their afflictions though his hand was hee takes no delight to afflict his children it goes against the hair and the heart it is a grief to him to bee grievous to them a pain to him to be● punishing of them a death to him to bee striking of them hee hath no will no motion no inclination no disposition to that work of afflicting of his people and therefore hee calls it his work his strange work Isa 28. 21. Mercy and punishment they flow from God as the hony and the sting from the Be● the Bee yeeldeth hony of her own nature but shee doth not sting but when shee is provoked hee takes delight in shewing of mercy Micah 7. 18. hee takes no pleasure in giving his people up to adversity Hosea 11. 8. Mercy and kindness floweth from him freely naturally hee is never severe never harsh hee never stings hee never terrifies us but when hee is sadly provoked by us Gods hand sometimes may lye very hard upon his people when his heart his bowels at those very times may bee yerning towards his people Jer. 31. 18 19 20. No man can tell how the heart of God stands by his hand his hand of mercy may bee open to those against whom his heart is set As you see in the rich poor fool and Dives in the Gospel and his hand of severity may lye hard upon those on whom hee hath set his heart as you may see in Job and Lazarus And thus you see those gracious blessed soul-quieting Conclusions about the issue and event of afflictions that a holy a prudent Silence doth include Sixthly A holy a prudent Silence includes and takes in a strict charge a solemn command that conscience laies upon the soul to bee quiet and still Psal 37. 7. Rest in the Lord ●or as the Hebrew hath it bee silent to the Lord and wait patiently for him I charge Matth. 8. 25 26. The Heathen could say A recta conscientia ne latum quidem unguem discedendum man may not depart an hairs breadth all his life long from the dictates of a good conscience thee O my soul not to mutter not to murmure I command thee O my soul to bee dumb and silent under the afflicting hand of God As Christ laid a charge a command upon the boisterous winds and the roaring raging Sea bee still and there was a great calm so conscience laies a charge upon the soul to bee quiet and still Psal 27. ult Wait on the Lord bee of good courage and hee shall strengthen thy heart wait I say on the Lord. Peace O my soul bee still leave your muttering leave your murmuring leave your complaining leave your chasing and vexing and lay your hand upon your mouth and bee silent Conscience allaies and stills all the tumults and uproars that bee in the soul by such like reasonings as the Clerk of Ephesus stilled that uproar Act. 19. 40. For wee are in danger to bee called in question for this daies uproar there being no cause whereby wee may give an account of this concourse O my soul bee quiet bee silent else thou wilt one day bee called in question for all those inward mutterings uproars and passions that are in thee seeing no sufficient cause can bee produced why you should murmure quarrel or wrangle under the righteous hand of God Seventhly A holy a prudent Silence includes a surrendring a resigning up of our selves to God whilst wee are under his afflicting Psal 27. 8. James 4. 7 1 Sam. 3. 18. 2 Sam. 15. 25 26. Act. 21. 13. 14 c. hand the silent soul gives himself up to God the secret language of the soul is this Lord here am I do with mee what thou pleasest write upon mee as thou pleasest I give up my self to bee at thy dispose There was a good woman who when shee was sick being asked whether shee were willing to live or dye answered which God pleaseth but said one that stood by if God should refer it to you which would you chuse truly said shee if God should refer it to mee I would even refer it to him again this was a soul worth gold Well saith a gracious soul the ambitious man gives himself up to his honours but I give up my self unto thee the voluptuous man gives himself up to his pleasures but I give up my self to thee the covetous man gives himself up to his bagges but I give up my self to thee the wanton gives himself up to his minion but I give up my self to thee the drunkard gives himself up to his cups but I give up my self to thee the Papist gives up himself to his Idols but I give up my self to thee the Turk gives up himself to his Mahomet but I give up my self to thee the Heretick gives up himself to his heretical opinions but I give up my self to thee Lord lay what burden thou wilt upon mee onely let thy everlasting arms bee under mee Strike Lord Luther strike and spare not for I am lyen down in thy will I have learned to say Amen to thy Amen thou hast a greater interest in mee than I have in my self and therefore I give up my self unto thee and am willing to bee at thy dispose and am ready to receive what impression thou shalt stamp upon mee O blessed Lord hast thou not again and again said unto mee as once the King of Israel said to the King of Syria I am 1 King 20 14. thine and all that I have I am thine O soul to save thee my mercy is thine to pardon thee my blood is thine to cleanse thee my merits are thine to justifie thee my righteousness is thine to cloathe thee my Spirit is thine to lead thee my grace is thine to enrich thee and my glory is thine to reward thee and therefore saith a gracious soul I cannot but make a resignation of my self unto thee Lord here I am do with mee

if not cease from murmurings where murmuring is in its reign in its dominion there you may speak and write that person ungodly let murmurers make what profession they will of godliness yet if murmuring keeps the Throne in their hearts Christ will deal with them at last as ungodly sinners a man may bee denominated ungodly as well from his murmuring if hee lives under the dominion of it as from his drunkenness swearing whoring lying stealing c. A murmurer is an ungodly man hee is an ungodlike man no man on earth more unlike to God than the murmurer and therefore no wonder if when Christ comes to execute judgement hee deals so severely and terribly with him In the wars of Tamberlain one having found a great pot of Gold that was hid in the earth hee brought it to Tamberlain who asked whether it had his Fathers stamp upon it but when hee saw it had not his Fathers stamp but the Roman stamp upon it he would not own it but cast it away The Lord Jesus when hee shall come with all his Saints to execute judgement Oh hee will not own murmurers nay hee will cast them away for ever because they have not his Fathers stamp upon them Ah souls souls as you would not go up and down this world with a badge of ungodliness upon you take heed of murmuring Thirdly Consider That murmuring Numb 16. 41. ch 17. 10. is a mother sin it is the Mother of harlots the Mother of all abominations a sin that breeds many other sins viz. disobedience contempt ingratitude impatience distrust rebellion cursing carnality yea it charges God with folly yea with blasphemy Judg. 17. 2. the language of a murmuring a muttering soul is this Surely God might have done this sooner and that wiser and the other thing better c. As the River Nilus bringeth forth many Crocodiles and the Scorpion many Serpents at one birth so murmuring is a sin that breeds and brings forth many sins at once Murmuring is like the Monster Hydra cut off one head and many will rise up in its room Oh! therefore bend all thy strength against this Mother sin As the King of Syria said 1 Kings 22. 31. to his Captains Fight neither with small nor great but with the King of Israel So say I fight not so much against this sin or that but fight against your murmuring which is a Mother sin make use of all your Eph. 6. 10 11. Christian armour make use of all the ammunition of Heaven to destroy the Mother and in destroying of her you will destroy the daughters When Goliah was slain the Philistians fled when a General in an Army is cut off the common souldiers are easily and quickly routed and destroyed So destroy but murmuring and you will quickly destroy disobedience ingratitude impatience distrust c. Oh! kill this Mother sin that this may never kill thy soul I have read of Senacherib that after his Army was destroyed by an Angel Isa 37. and hee returned home to his own Country hee enquired of one about him what hee thought the reason might bee why God so favoured the Jews hee answered that there was one Abraham their Father that was willing to sacrifice his Son to death at the command of God and that ever since that time God favoured that people well said Senacherib if that bee it I have two Sons and I will sacrifice them both to death if that will procure their God to favour mee which when his two Sons heard they as the story goeth slew their Father Isa 37. 38. chusing rather to kill than bee killed So do thou chuse rather to kill this Mother sin than Psal 137. 8 9 to bee killed by it or by any of those vipers that are brought forth by it Fourthly Consider That murmuring is a God-provoking sin it is a sin that provokes God not onely to afflict but also to destroy Numb 26. ult Numb 12. 10 Rev. 16. 8 9 10 11 a people Numb 14. 27 28 29. How long shall I bear with this evil Congregation which murmure against mee I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel which they murmure against mee Say unto them As truly as I live saith the Lord as yee have spoken in mine ears so will I do to you Your carkasses shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbred of you according to your whole number from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against mee 1 Cor. 10. 10. Neither murmure yee as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer All our murmurings do but provoke the Lord to strike us and destroy us I have read of Caesar that having Seneca prepared a great feast for his Nobles and Friends it so ●ell out that the day appointed was extream ●oul that nothing could be done to the honour of the meeting whereupon hee was so displeased and enraged that hee commanded all them that had bows to shoot up their arrows at Jupiter their chief God as in defiance of him for that rainy weather which when they did their arrows fell short of Heaven and full upon their own heads so that many of them were very sorely wounded So all our mutterings and murmurings which are as so many arrows shot at God himself they will return upon our pates hearts they reach not him but they will hit us they hurt not him but they will wound us therefore it is better to bee mute than to murmure it is dangerous to provoke a consuming fire Heb. 12. ult Irenaeus calleth murmurers ora diaboli the Devils mouth Job 1. 8 9 Luk. 22. 31 -34 2 Cor. 12. 8 9 10 Fifthly Consider That murmuring is the Devils Image sin and punishment Satan is still a murmuring ●hee murmures at every mercy that God bestows at every dram of grace hee gives hee murmures at every sin hee pardons and at every soul he● saves a soul cannot have a good look from Heaven nor hear a good word from Heaven nor receive a Love-letter from Heaven but Satan murmures at it he murmures and mutters at every act of pittying grace and at every act of preventing grace and at every act of supporting grace and at every act of strengthening grace and at every act of comforting grace that God exercises towards poor souls hee murmures at every sip at every drop at every crum of mercy that God bestows Cyprian Aquinas and others conceive that the cause of Satans banishment from Heaven was his grieving and murmuring at the dignity of man whom hee beheld made after Gods own Image insomuch that Gen. 3. hee would relinquish his own glory Satan can never bee quiet nec victor nec victus neither conquered nor conquerour to devest so noble a Creature of perfection and rather bee in Hell himself than see Adam placed in Paradise But certainly after his fall murmuring and envy at mans innocency and felicity put him upon attempting

10. 13. But God is faithful who will not suffer you to bee tempted above that yee are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that yee may bee able to bear it Rom. 16. 20. And the God of peace shall tread Satan under your feet shortly 1 John 2. 13 14. I write unto you Fathers because yee have known him that is from the beginning I write unto young men because you have overcome the wicked one I write unto you children because yee have known the Father I have written unto you Fathers because yee have known him that is from the beginning I have written unto you young men because yee are strong and the word of God abideth in you and yee have overcome the wicked one 1 John 5. 18. Wee know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not that is that sin that is unto death vers 16. nor hee sinneth not as other men do delightfully greedily customarily resolvedly impenitently c. but hee that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not The glorious Exod. 14. victory that the people of God had over Pharaoh and his great Host was a figure of the glorious victory that the Saints shall obtain over Satan and his instruments which is clear from that Rev. 15. 3. Where wee have the song of Moses and of the Lamb but why the song of Moses and of the Lamb but to hint this to us that the overthrow of Pharaoh was a figure of the overthrow of Satan and the triumphal song of Moses was a figure of that song which the Saints shall sing for their overthrow of Satan As certainly as Israel overcame Pharaoh so certainly shall every true Israelite overcome Satan The Romans were worsted in many fights but were never overcome in a set war at the long run they overcame all their enemies though a Christian may bee worsted by Satan in some particular skirmishes yet at the long run hee is sure of an honourable conquest God puts a great deal of honour upon a poor soul when hee brings him into the open field to sight it ou● with Satan by fighting hee overcomes hee gains the victory hee triumphs over Satan and leads captivity captive Augustine gives this reason why God permitted Adam at first to be tempted viz. that hee might have had the more glory in resisting and withstanding Satans temptation it is the glory of a Christian to bee made strong to resist and to have his resistance crowned with a happy conquest Sixthly By temptations the Lord will make his people more frequent and more abundant in the work of prayer every temptation proves a strong alarm to prayer When Paul was in the school of temptation hee prayed 2 Cor. 12. 8 9 thrice that is often daies of temptation are daies of great supplication Christians usually pray most when they are tempted most they are most busie with God when Satan is most busie with them a Christian is most upon his knees when Satan stands most at his elbow Augustine was a man much tempted So Bernard Basil G●rgonia Trucilla James Jacob Daniel and a man much in prayer holy prayer saith hee is a shelter to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge to the Devil Luther was a man under manifold temptations and a man much in prayer hee is said to have spent three hours every day in prayer hee used to say that prayer was the best book in his study Chrysostome was much in the school of temptation and delighted much in prayer Oh! saith hee it is more bitter than death to bee spoiled of prayer and hereupon as hee observes Daniel chose rather to run the hazard of his life than to lose his prayer But Seventhly By temptations the Lord will make his people more and more conformable to the Image of his Son Christ was much Luk. 4 tempted hee was often in the school of temptation and the more a Christian is tempted the more into the likeness of Christ hee will bee transformed of all men in the world tem●ted souls do most resemble Christ to the life in meekness low liness holiness heavenliness c. The Image of Christ is most fairly stampt upon tempted Heb. 12. 1 2 2 Cor. 3. 18. Heb. 2. 17 18 souls tempted souls are much in looking up to Jesus and every gracious look upon Christ changes the soul more and more into the Image of Christ tempted souls experience much of the succourings of Christ and the more they experience the sweet of the succourings of Christ the more they grow up into the likeness of Christ temptations are the tools by which the Father of spirits doth more and more carve form and fashion his precious Saints into the similitude and likeness of his dearest Son Eighthly and lastly Take many things in one God by temptations makes sin more hateful and the world less delightful and relations less hurtful by temptations God discovers to us our own weakness and the creatures insufficiency 1 Pet. 5. 8 in the hour of temptation to help us or succour us by temptations God will brighten our Christian Ephes 6. 10 18 Armour and make us stand more upon our Christian watch and keep us closer to a succouring Christ by temptations the Lord will make his ordinances to bee more highly prized and Heaven to be more earnestly desired Now seeing 2 Cor. 5. 1 2 3. that temptations shall work so eminently for the Saints good why should not Christians bee mute and silent why should they not hold their peace and lay their hands upon their mouths though their afflictions are attended with great temptations Object 8 Oh! But God hath deserted mee hee hath forsaken mee and hee that should comfort my soul stands afar off how can I bee silent the Lord hath hid his face from mee clouds are gathered about mee God hath turned his back upon mee how can I hold my peace supposing that the desertion is real and not in appearance only as sometimes it falls out I answer First It hath been the common lot portion and condition of the choicest Saints in this world to be deserted and forsaken of God Psal 30. 6 7. Psal 77. and 88. Job 23. 8 9. Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. ch 5. 6 7. Isa 8. 17. Micah 7. 7 8 9. If God deal● no worse with thee than hee hath dealt with his most bosome friends with his choicest Jewels thou hast no reason to complain But Secondly Gods forsaking of thee is onely partial it is not total God may forsake his people in part but he never wholly forsakes them he may forsake them in respect of his quickning presence and in respect of his comforting Psal 9. 4. Gen. 49. 23 24 presence but hee never forsakes them in respect of his supporting presence 2 Cor. 12. 9. My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness Psal 73. 23 24. The steps

by one Grimwood shortly after the said Grimwood being in perfect health his bowels suddenly fell out of his body and so hee died miserably Narcissus a godly Bishop of Jerusalem was falsely accused by three men of many foul matters who sealed up with oaths and imprecations their false testimonies but shortly after that one of them with Euseb his whole family and substance was burnt with fire another of them was stricken with a grievous disease such as in his imprecation hee had wished to himself the third terrified with the sight of Gods judgements upon the former became very penitent and poured out the grief of his heart in such abundance of tears that thereby hee became blinde A wicked wretch under Commodus Niceph. the Emperour accused Apollonius a godly Christian to the Judges for certain grievous crimes which when hee could not prove hee was adjudged to have his leggs broken according to an antient Law of the Romans Gregory Bradway falsely accused one Brook but shortly after through terrours of conscience hee sought to cut his own throat but being prevented hee fell mad I have read of Socrates's two false accusers how that the one was trodden to death by the multitude and the other was forced to avoid the like by a voluntary banishment I might produce a multitude of other instances but let these suffice to evidence how swift and terrible a witness God hath been against those that have been false accusers of his people and that have laded their precious names with scorn and reproach the serious consideration of which should make the accused and reproached Christian to sit dumb and silent before the Lord. Eighthly and lastly God himself is daily reproached men tremble not to cast scorn and contempt upon God himself sometimes they charge the Lord that his waies are not equal that it is a Ezek. 18. 25. ch 29. 33. 17. 20 29. Jer. 2. 5 6. wrong way hee goeth in sometimes they charge God with cruelty My punishment is greater than I am able to bear Gen. 4. 13. Sometimes they charge God with partiality and respect of persons because here hee stroaks and there hee strikes here hee lifts up and there hee casts down here hee smiles and there hee frowns here hee gives much and there hee gives nothing here hee loves and there hee hates here hee prospers Rom 9 Psal 50. 21 It were very strange that I should please a world of men when God himself doth not give every man content Salv. one and there hee blasts another Mal. 2. 17. Where is the God of judgement i. e. no where either there is no God of judgement or at least not a God of exact precise and impar●ial judgement c. Sometimes they charge God with unbountifulness that hee is a God that will set his people to hard work to much work but will pay them no wages nor give them no reward Mal. 3. 14. Yee have said it is in 〈◊〉 to serve God and what profit is it that wee have kept his ordinances and that wee have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts Sometimes they charge God that hee is a hard Master and that hee reaps where hee hath not sown and gathers where hee hath not strowed Mat. 25. 24 c. Oh the infinite reproach and scorn that is every day that is every hour in the day cast upon the Lord his name his truth his waies his ordinances his glory Alass all the scorn and contempt that is cast upon all the Saints all the world over is nothing to that which is cast upon the great God every hour and yet hee is patient Ah! how hardly do most men think of God and how hardly do they speak of God and how unhansomely do they carry it towards God and yet hee bears They that will not spare God himself his name his truth his honour shall wee think it much that they spare not us or our names c. surely no. Why should wee look that those should give us good words that cannot afford God a good word from one weeks end to another yea from one years end to another why should wee look that they should cry out Hosanna Hosanna to us when as every day they cry out of Christ crucifie him crucifie him Mat. 10. 25. It is enough for the Disciple that hee bee as his Master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub or a Master-flye or a dung-hill god or the chief Devil how much more shall they call them of his houshold It is preferment enough for the servant to be as his Lord and if they make no bones of staining and blaspheming the name of the Lord never wonder if they flye-blow thy name and let this suffice to quiet and silence your hearts Christians under all that scorn and contempt that is cast upon your names and reputations in this world The tenth and last Objection is this Sir In this my affliction I have sought to the Lord for this that mercy and still God delaies mee and puts mee off I have several times thought that mercy had been near that deliverance had been at the door but now I see it is afar off how can I then hold my peace how can I bee silent under such delaies and disappointments To this Objection I shall give you these Answers First The Lord doth not alwaies time his Answers to the swiftness of his peoples expectations hee that is the God of our mercies is the Lord of our times God hath delayed long his dearest Saints times belonging to him as Psal 70. 5 Psal 6. 13 Psal 13 1 2 Psal 94. 3 4 Zech. 1. 12 well as issue Hab. 1. 2. O Lord how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear even cry out unto thee for violence and thou wilt not help Job 19. 7. Behold I cry out of violence but I have no answer I cry but there is no judgement Psal 69. 3. I am weary of crying my throat is dry mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psal 40. 17. Make no t●●rying O my God! Though God had promised him a Crown a Kingdome yet hee puts him off from day to day and for all his haste hee must stay for it till the set time is come Paul was delayed 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 Psal 105. 17 18 19 so long till hee even despaired of life and had the sentence of death in himself And Joseph was delayed so long till the Irons entred into his soul So hee delayed long the giving in of comfort to Mr. Glover though hee had sought him frequently earnestly and denied himself to the death for Christ Augustine being under convictions a showre of tears came from him and casting himself on the ground under a Fig-tree hee cries out O Lord how long how long shall I say to morrow to morrow why not to day Lord why not to day Though Abigail made haste to