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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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Sermon › That the Lord gives his best Gifts, to his best Beloved ones.
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If the Creditor himself blot out the debt, and cross the 1Book, surely it shall never be remembered more. Our sins are debts, which God who hath the power of life and death, ⟨p. 143⟩of heaven and hell, of condemning and absolving, hath engaged himself to blot out as a thick cloud. Isa. 44. 22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins. An under Officer may blot out an Indictment, and yet the offender may be never the better for it; but if the King, who is the supreme Judge, shall blot it out, then the offender is safe. The Application is easy. If the soul be deserted, then that Promise relives it, Mich. 7. 18, 19. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us, &c. If the soul be sliding, and ready to fall, then that Promise supports and upholds it, Psal. 37. 24. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand: 2Or as the Hebrew ha's it, The Lord upholding him with his hand. The Hebrew Participle (Somech) notes a continued act of God (God ha's still his everlasting arms under his 3people, so that they shall never totally nor finally fall.) And the root (Samuch) from whence this word is derived. 4signifies to sustain, or uphold, as the tender Mother doth the little Babe. The safety and security of the Child lies not so much in the Child's hanging about the Mothers neck, as in the Mothers holding it fast in her arms: So our safety and security lies not so much in our weak holding upon Christ, but in Christs holding of us fast in his everlasting arms. This is our glory, and our safety, that Christs left hand is always under us, and his right hand does always embrace us,