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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.
THE Unsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.THE Ʋnsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.
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 Support is this,
That weak Saints may be very useful to the strong, and sometimes may do more then strong Saints can.
That weake Saints may be very usefull to the strong, and sometimes may doe more then strong Saints can.
As you may see in 1 Cor. 12. 14. to 28. The Apostle in this Scripture discovers the singular use of the weakest Saint in the body of Christ, by the usefulness of the weakest and meanest Member in the natural body, to the strongest. Ver. 21. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again, the head to the foot, I have no need of thee. By the head, and by the eye, he means such Saints as were eminent in gifts & graces, that were adorned more richly, and that shined more gloriously in grace and gracious abilities, then others. Oh these should not despise those that were not so eminent and excellent as themselves; for God hath so tempered the inequality of the members ⟨p. 82⟩in the natural body, that the more excellent and beautiful members, can in no wise lack the more abject and weak members; therefore slight not the weakest Saints, for certainly at first or last the weakest will be serviceable to the 1strongest. A Dwarf may be useful to a Giant, a Child to a man. Sometimes a little finger shall do that that a limb in the body can't do. 'Tis so often in Christs spiritual body: I will give you a very famous instance for this.