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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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Eighthly, It is your duty to labour to strengthen weak Saints against sin, and to draw them to holiness Argumentatively.
Eightly, It is your duty to labour to strengthen weak Saints against sin, and to draw them to holinesse Argumentatively.
When a strong Saint comes to deal with one that's weak, and would strengthen him against sin, he must do it Argumentatively; and when he would draw to holiness, he must do it Argumentatively 1 John 2. 1, 2. compared with Ch. 7. 9. My little Children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. What things were those he wrote? Mark, Chap. 1. 7. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanseth us from all sins. Here he fenceth them against sin by one of the strongest and choicest Arguments that the whole Book of God affords, by an Argument that's drawn from the souls Communion with God. And then in vers. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the father. Here the Apostle labours to strengthen weak Saints Argumentatively, even by the strongest Arguments that the whole Book of God affords. So vers. 12, 13. I write unto you little Children, because your sins are forgiven you, for his names sake, &c. So in vers. 18. Little Children, it is the last times, and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time. So in ver. 28. And now little Children abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming; If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every ⟨p. 133⟩one that doth righteousness is borne of him. You see in all these Scriptures, how the Apostle labours to strengthen weak Saints in a way of holiness, and to fence them against ways of wickedness Argumentatively, and so must you; this being the ready way to convince them, and to make a Conquest upon them, &c.