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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 › The Reasons why God gives his b•st Gifts to his Dearest ones.
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Augustus in his solemn Feasts, gave trifles to some, but gold to others. The Lord Jesus scatters the trifles of this world up and down, as Luther well speaks, The whole Turkish Empire is but a crust that God throws to a Dog. God scatters giftless Gifts, viz. the honours, riches, and favours of this world, up and down among the worst of men; but as for his gold, his spirit, his grace, his Son, his favour, these are Jewels that he only casts into the bosom of Saints, and that because he dearly loves them.
Augustus in his solemne Feasts, gave trifles to some, but gold to others. The Lord Jesus scatters the trifles of this world up and downe, as Luther well speaks, The whole Turkish Empire is but a crust that God throwes to a Dogge. God scatters giftlesse Gifts, viz. the honours, riches, and favours of this world, up and downe among the worst of men; but as for his gold, his spirit, his grace, his Son, his favour, these are Jewels that he onely casts into the bosome of Saints, and that because he dearly loves them.
Secondly, Christ gives the best Gifts to his people, Because 1they are best principled and fitted to make a Divine improvement of them.
Secondly, Christ gives the best Gifts to his people, Beeause 1they are best principled and fitted to make a Divine improvement of them.
- 1Wicked men are only principled to abuse mercy, which occasions God so often to rain hell out of heaven upon them, as he did once up on Sodom & Gomorrah, for abusing of mercy. Gen. 25. 5.Wicked men are onely principled to abuse mercy, which occasions God so often to raine hell out of heaven upon them, as he did once up on Sodome & Gomorrah, for abusing of mercy.