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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.
Sermon › The Reasons why God gives his b•st Gifts to his Dearest ones.
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.
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. Gen. 25. 5.
There's no men on earth that are principled and fitted for the improvement of the special Gifts that Christ gives, but his own people: None have such principles of wisdom, love, holiness, and faithfulness, to make an improvement of the joy, the peace, the comfort, that the Lord gives, as his people. Ergo. Abraham gave unto the Sons of the Concubines Gifts, and sent them away, but unto Isaac he gave all that he had. As Isaac was better beloved then the Concubines Sons, so Isaac was better principled to improve love, then they were. The application is easy.
There's no men on earth that are principled and fitted for the improvement of the speciall Gifts that Christ gives, but his owne people: None have such principles of wisdome, love, holinesse, and faithfullnesse, to make an improvement of the joy, the peace, the comfort, that the Lord gives, as his people. Ergo. Abraham gave unto the Sons of the Concubines Gifts, and sent them away, but unto Isaac he gave all that he had. As Isaac was better beloved then the Concubines Sons, so Isaac was better principled to improve love, then they were. The application is easie.