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The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
Ton anexichniaston plouton [sic] tou Christou. The unsearchable riches of Christ. Or, Meat for strong men. Milk [for] babes. Held for th in twenty-two sermons from Ephesians 3.8. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Word at Margarets New-Fishstreet.Ton anexichniaston plouton [sic] tou Christou. The unsearchable riches of Christ. Or, Meat for strong men. Milke [for] babes. Held for th in twenty-two sermons from Ephesians 3.8. By Thomas Brookes, preacher of the Word at Margarets New-Fishstreet.
London: printed by Mary Simmons for John Hancock, 1655
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You are not to choose your employment, neither are you to refuse any employment that God shall put upon you: You are always to have an open ear, a ready hand, an obedient heart, and a willing cheerful soul to fall in with what work or service soever it is that God shall put upon you, this is your Principle. I, but tell me, Christians, will a little grace enable a man to live up to this Principle? I judge not. You are to stand ready to change your employment from better to worse, if the Lord shall be pleased to order it so. You are to be ready to change your Crown for a Cross; to change that employment that's honourable, for that that's mean and ⟨p. 235⟩low; and that which is more profitable, for that which is less profitable; as it were from ruling of a Province, to the keeping of a Heard; from being a Lord, to be a servant; from being a servant to great men, to be a servant to the meanest servant, yea, to the poorest Beast. Certainly a little grace will never enable a man bravely and sweetly to live up to this Principle. Their hearts that are poor in grace, are like a wounded hand or arm, which being but imperfectly cured, can only move one way, and cannot turn to all postures, and all natural uses.
You are not to choose your imployment, neither are you to refuse any imployment that God shall put upon you: You are alwayes to have an open eare, a ready hand, an obedient heart, and a willing cheerfull soule to fall in with what work or service soever it is that God shall put upon you, this is your Principle. I, but tell me, Christians, will a little grace inable a man to live up to this Principle? I judge not. You are to stand ready to change your imployment from better to worse, if the Lord shall be pleased to order it so. You are to be ready to change your Crowne for a Crosse; to change that imployment that's honourable, for that that's mean and ⟨p. 235⟩low; and that which is more profitable, for that which is lesse profitable; as it were from ruling of a Province, to the keeping of a Heard; from being a Lord, to be a servant; from being a servant to great men, to be a servant to the meanest servant, yea, to the poorest Beast. Certainly a little grace will never inable a man bravely and sweetly to live up to this Principle. Their hearts that are poore in grace, are like a wounded hand or arme, which being but imperfectly cured, can onely move one way, and cannot turne to all postures, and all naturall uses.