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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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Jerous tells us of one Didymus, a godly Preacher, who was 1blind; Alexander a godly man coming to him, asked him, Whether he was not sore troubled and afflicted for want of his sight? O yes, said didymus, It's a great affliction and trouble to me: Then Alexander chid him, saying, Hath God given you the excellency of an Angel, of an Apostle, and are you troubled for that which Rats and Mice, and brute-beasts have? 'Tis great folly, 'tis double iniquity, for a Christian to be troubled for the want of those things, that God ordinarily bestows upon the worst of men. Oh the mercies that a Christian ha's in hand! Oh the mercies that a Christian ha's in the Promises! Oh the mercies that a Christian ha's in hope! are so many, so precious, and so glorious, that they should bear up his head and heart from fainting, and sinking, under all outward wants.
Jerous tells us of one Didymus, a godly Preacher, who was 1blind; Alexander a godly man coming to him, askt him, Whether he was not sore troubled and afflicted for want of his sight? O yes, said didymus, It's a great affliction and trouble to me: Then Alexander chid him, saying, Hath God given you the excellency of an Angel, of an Apostle, and are you troubled for that which Rats and Mice, and bruit-beasts have? 'Tis great folly, 'tis double iniquity, for a Christian to be troubled for the want of those things, that God ordinarily bestowes upon the worst of men. Oh the mercies that a Christian ha's in hand! Oh the mercies that a Christian ha's in the Promises! Oh the mercies that a Christian ha's in hope! are so many, so precious, and so glorious, that they should bear up his head and heart from fainting, and sinking, under all outward wants.
- 1Socrates Scho. l. 4. c. 20.
There goes a Story among Scholars, Of Aesops deceiving Mercury, He having promised him one part of his Nuts, keeps all the meat to himself, and gives the other the shells.