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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon › That the Office of a Minister, or Preacher, is honourable.
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.
The fifth thing that speaks out this truth, is this, They serve an honourable Master. They serve him that is all ear to hear, all hand to punish, all power to protect, all wisdom to direct, all goodness to relieve, and all mercy to pardon. They 1serve that God that is (Optimum maximum) the best and greatest. God hath within himself all the good of Angels, men, and universal nature; he hath all dignity, all glory, all riches, all treasure, all pleasure, all delight, all joy, all beatitudes. Mark, abstracts do better express God, then concretes, and adjectives. God is being, bonity, beauty, power, wisdom, justice, mercy, and love it self. God is love (saith the Apostle) in the very abstract. God is one infinite perfection in himself, which is eminently and virtually all perfections 2of the Creatures: And Oh then what an honour must it be to those that are employed under so honourable a Master?
The fifth thing that speaks out this truth, is this, They serve an honourable Master. They serve him that is all ear to hear, all hand to punish, all power to protect, all wisedome to direct, all goodnesse to relieve, and all mercy to pardon. They 1serve that God that is (Optimum maximum) the best and greatest. God hath within himselfe all the good of Angels, men, and universal nature; he hath all dignity, all glory, all riches, all treasure, all pleasure, all delight, all joy, all beatitudes. Mark, abstracts doe better expresse God, then concretes, and adjectives. God is being, bonity, beauty, power, wisedome, justice, mercy, and love it selfe. God is love (saith the Apostle) in the very abstract. God is one infinite perfection in himselfe, which is eminently and virtually all perfections 2of the Creatures: And Oh then what an honour must it be to those that are imployed under so honourable a Master?
- 1Habet omnia qui habet habentem omnia Aug. He hath all, that hath the haver of all.
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