A77593:596
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.
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.
1 It signifies to receive weak Saints as our own bowels; to receive them with the greatest tenderness, affections, pity, and compassion that possibly can be. So the same Greek word is used in the Epistle of Philemon, vers. 12. where Paul entreats Philemon, to receive Onesimus as his own bowels. The word there is the same word with this in the Text: So must the strong receive the weak, even as their own bowels; receive them with the greatest affection, with the greatest compassion that possibly can be.
1 It signifies to receive weak Saints as our owne bowels; to receive them with the greatest tendernesse, affections, pity, and compassion that possibly can be. So the same Greek word is used in the Epistle of Philemon, vers. 12. where Paul intreats Philemon, to receive Onesimus as his owne bowels. The word there is the same word with this in the Text: So must the strong receive the weak, even as their owne bowels; receive them with the greatest affection, with the greatest compassion that possibly can be.
2 The word signifies patiently to bear with the weak when they are received: And not to take them into your bosoms, into your communion one day, and cast them out the next, but patiently to bear with them, as well as affectionately to receive them.
2 The word signifies patiently to bear with the weake when they are received: And not to take them into your bosomes, into your communion one day, and cast them out the next, but patiently to bear with them, as well as affectionately to receive them.