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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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Bucer ejected none, in whom he saw (Aliquid Christi) Any thing of Christ: But gave them the right hand of fellowship. Such persons and Churches can never answer it to Christ, that keep the door of admission shut against souls truly gracious, though they are but weak in grace, though they have not attained to such a measure of light, or degrees of love, or to such perfections in holiness, as such and such have done: No, the standing Rule is, Him whom the Lord hath received, receive.
Bucer ejected none, in whom he saw (Aliquid Christi) Any thing of Christ: But gave them the right hand of fellowship. Such persons and Churches can never answer it to Christ, that keep the door of admission shut against soules truly gracious, though they are but weak in grace, though they have not attain'd to such a measure of light, or degrees of love, or to such pe••ections in holinesse, as such and such have done: No, the standing Rule is, Him whom the Lord hath received, receive.
If weak Saints shall desire communion, and be willing to walk in the ways that Jesus Christ hath appointed his Saints to walk in, the Churches ought to give them the right hand of fellowship. And that's the second Duty that lies upon the strong, viz. That they are to receive the weak into communion and fellowship with them, and that with the greatest affection, love, and compassion that possibly can be.
If weak Saints shall desire communion, and be willing to walk in the wayes that Jesus Christ hath appointed his Saints to walk in, the Churches ought to give them the right hand of fellowship. And that's the second Duty that lyes upon the strong, viz. That they are to receive the weake into communion and fellowship with them, and that with the greatest affection, love, and compassion that possibly can be.