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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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Ninthly, As Ministers must Preach the word feelingly, experimentally, so they must Preach the word Rightly; they must divide and distribute the word according to every ones spiritual estate and condition; they must give Comfort to whom comfort belongs, and counsel to whom counsel belongs, 1and reproof, to whom reproof belongs, and terror to whom terror belongs. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Study to show thy self approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth: Or word for word, Rightly cutting into parts the word of truth. Some say the Metaphor is 2taken from the Priests of the Old Testament, who having slain the Beasts that were to be sacrificed, did joint and divide the same in an accurate manner. Others say, 'tis a ⟨p. 307⟩Metaphor taken from a Cutter of Leather, who cutteth off 3that which is superfluous, when he cutteth out Reins and Thongs. So in the handling of the word, Questions that are superfluous and unprofitable, ought to be cut off, and that only is to be held forth, that makes for the hearers instruction, edification, and consolation. Others say the Metaphor is taken 4from the cutting and squaring out of the Streets, and High-ways, and setting out the bounds of mens Lands and Possessions. Others by Cutting the word of truth aright, understand the raising of right Instructions, by following the rule of the word, only as a Plough-man that draweth or cutteth a right furrow in the ground.
Ninthly, As Ministers must Preach the word feelingly, experimentally, so they must Preach the word Rightly; they must divide and distribute the word according to every ones spiritual estate and condition; they must give Comfort to whom comfort belongs, and counsel to whom counsel belongs, 1and reproof, to whom reproof belongs, and terror to whom terror belongs.