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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.
A fifth Duty incumbent upon strong Saints, is
To support the weak.
To support the weake.
1 Thess. 5. 14. Support the weak, be patient towards all §5 Duty.men. Look what the Crutch is to the lame, and the beam of ⟨p. 130⟩the house is to the ruinated house, that ought strong Saints to be to the weak. Strong Saints are to be Crutches to the weak; they are to be (as it were) beams to bear up the weak. Strong Saints are to set too their shoulder, to shore 1up the weak by their counsels, prayers, tears, and examples. Strong Saints must not deal by the weak, as the Herd of Deere do by the wounded Deere, they forsake it, and push it away: O no, when a poor weak Saint is wounded by a temptation, or by the power of some corruption, then they that are strong ought to succour and support such a one, least he be swallowed up of sorrow. When you that are strong see a weak Saint staggering and reeling under a temptation, or affliction; Oh know, it's then your duty to put both your hands underneath, to support him that he faint not, that he miscarries not in such an hour. Isa. 35. 3. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Strengthen the weak hands. That is, hands that hang down. And confirm the feeble knees, that is, such knees that by reason of feebleness are ready to fall, strengthen such; that is, encourage them, by casting in a Promise, by casting in thy Experiences, or by casting in thy Experiences of other Saints, that so they may be supported. It may be his case was once thine; if so, then tell him what Promises did support thee, what discoveries of God did uphold thee: Tell him, what tastes, what sights, and what incomes thou hadst, and how bravely thou didst bear up by the strength of his everlasting arms, that were under thee, &c