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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.
To cast a Mantle over the infirmities of the weak.
To cast a Mantle over the infirmities of the weake.
Now there is a three-fold Mantle that should be cast over the infirmities of the weak. There is a Mantle of Wisdom. 1A Mantle of Faithfulness. And a Mantle of Compassion, which is to be cast over all the infirmities of weak Saints.
Now there is a three-fold Mantle that should be cast over the infirmities of the weak. There is a Mantle of Wisedome. 1A Mantle of Faithfullnesse. And a Mantle of Compassion, which is to be cast over all the infirmities of weak Saints.
- 1Parisensis said sometimes concerning trifles, It is (said he) as if a man should see a Fly or a Flea on a mans forehead, and for that should presently take a Beetle to knock him on the head, to kill the Fly.
First, Strong Saints are to cast a Mantle of Wisdom over the infirmities of weak Saints. They are not to present their sins in that ugliness, and with such aggravations, as may terrify, as may sink, as may make a weak Saint to despair, or may drive him from the Mercy-seat, or as may keep him and Christ asunder, or as may unfit him for the discharge of Religious duties. It is more a weakness then a virtue in strong Christians, when a weak Saint is fallen, to aggravate his fall to the uttermost, and to present his sins in such a dreadful dress, as shall amaze him, &c. It often proves very prejudicial and dangerous to weak Saints, when their infirmities are aggravated beyond Scripture-grounds, and beyond what they are able to bear. He that shall lay the same strength to the rubbing of an earthen dish, as he does to the rubbing of a Pewter platter, instead of cleaning it, shall surely break it all to pieces. The application is easy, &c.