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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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Secondly, There is a Mantle of Faithfulness that is to be cast over the infirmities of weak Saints. A man should never discover the infirmities of a weak Saint, especially to such that have neither skill, nor will to heal and bury them: The world will but blaspheme, and blaze them abroad, to the dishonour of God, to the reproach of Religion, and to the grief and scandal of the weak, &c. They will with Ham, rather call upon others to scoff at them, then bring a Mantle to cover them, &c. Ham was curst for that he did discover his fathers nakedness to his brethren, when it was in his ⟨p. 134⟩power to have covered it; he saw it, and might have drawn a Curtain over it, but would not; and for this, by a Spirit of Prophecy he was curst by his father, Gen. 9. 22. This Age is full of such Monsters, that rejoice to blaze abroad the infirmities of the Saints, and these certainly Justice ha's or will curse.
Secondly, There is a Mantle uf Faithfullnesse that is to be cast over the infirmities of weake Saints. A man should never discover the infirmities of a weak Saint, especially to such that have neither skill, nor will to heale and bury them: The world will but blaspheme, and blaze them abroad, to the dishonour of God, to the reproach of Religion, and to the grief and scandall of the weak, &c. They will with Ham, rather call upon others to scoffe at them, then bring a Mantle to cover them, &c. Ham was curst for that he did discover his fathers nakednesse to his brethren, when it was in his ⟨p. 134⟩power to have covered it; he saw it, and might have drawne a Curtaine over it, but would not; and for this, by a Spirit of Prophesie he was curst by his father, Gen. 9. 22. This Age is full of such Monsters, that rejoyce to blaze abroad the infirmities of the Saints, and these certainly Justice ha's or will curse.