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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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Jerome tells a story Of a Christian Soldier, whom when the Praetor could not by any torments remove from Christianity, he commanded to be laid on a bed in a pleasant Garden, among 1the flourishing and fragrant flowers; which done, all others withdrawing, a most beautiful Harlot came to him, and used all Art to destroy his soul; but the Christian Soldier being filled with the royal Gifts of the spirit, bit off his tongue with his teeth, and spat it in her face as she was tempting him, and so got victory over all her temptations.
Jerom tells a story Of a Christian Souldier, whom when the Pretor could not by any torments remove from Christianity, he commanded to be laid on a bed in a pleasant Garden, among 1the flourishing and fragrant flowers; which done, all others withdrawing, a most beautifull Harlot came to him, and used all Art to destroy his soule; but the Christian Souldier being filled with the royall Gifts of the spirit, bit off his tongue with his teeth, and spat it in her face as she was tempting him, and so got victory over all her temptations.
- 1H•eronimus in vita Pauli.
The precious favours God confers upon his, make them temptation-proof, they make believers trample upon the most amiable baits, How can I do this great wickedness, and 1sin against God? says Joseph: Josephs sense of Potiphars favours heaped upon him, strengthened him against the impudent solicitations of his wanton Mistress; and shall not the singular favours that God confers upon his dearest ones, strengthen them against Satan's assaults? Surely gracious hearts are wrought more upon, and bettered and strengthened more by spirituals, then by temporals; by eternals, then by externals, and if Satan don't find it so, I am much mistaken. Well, remember this, Satan's overcoming the Saints gives him the greatest advantage to boast and triumph over Christ.