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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.
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.
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.
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3 The word signifies by fatherly instruction to seek to restore him. 'Tis not the will of Christ that weak Saints should be rejected, or that the door of entrance should be shut against them, till they are stronger, or till they have attained to such heights, and such perfections of grace, and Divine enjoyments of God, as others have attained. Remember this, as the weakest faith (if true) gives the soul a right to all that internal and eternal worth that is in Christ: So the weakest faith, if true, gives a man a real right unto all the external privileges and favours that come by Christ. In Rom. 15. 7. Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God. This is the standing rule for ⟨p. 127⟩all the Saints and Churches in the world to go by: 'Tis not their wills, but these two Scriptures last cited, that are the standing rules by which all the Churches on earth are to go by, in the admission of Members.