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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.
Eighthly, and lastly.
Be not impatient nor froward, when God shall take away some lesser mercies from you.
Hath God given you the best, and the greatest gifts that your souls can beg, or himself can give? And will you be froward or impatient when he shall come to take away lesser mercies? What? wilt thou be an impatient soul, when God comes and writes death upon such a near mercy, and passes the sentence of death upon such and such desirable mercies? Verily this is the way to provoke God to strip thee naked of thy choicest ornaments, and to put thee in Chains, or else to turn thee a grassing among the beasts of the field, as he did Nebuchadnezzar. God gives the best, and takes away the worst; he gives the greatest, and takes away the least; the sense of which made Job bless God, when stripped of all. If a ⟨p. 165⟩man should give you a Pearl, and take away a pin; if he should give you a bag of gold, and take away a bag of Counters, would it not be madness in you to be impatient, and froward? Does God take away a pin, and ha's he not given you a Pearl for it? He ha's given thee a pound, O Christian, for every penny that he ha's taken from thee; therefore be not froward, nor impatient. Remember Christians, how many in the world there be, that sit sighing and mourning under the want of those very favours that you do enjoy. Why does the living man complain? What, out of the grave, and complain? What, out of hell, and complain? This is mans sin, and Gods wonder.
Hath God given you the best, and the greatest gifts that your soules can begg, or himselfe can give? And will you be froward or impatient when he shall come to take away lesser mercies? What? wilt thou be an impatient soule, when God comes and writes death upon such a neere mercy, and passes the sentence of death upon such and such desirable mercies? Verily this is the way to provoke God to strip thee naked of thy choycest ornaments, and to put thee in Chaines, or else to turne thee a grasing among the beasts of the field, as he did Nebuchadnezzar. God gives the best, and takes away the worst; he gives the greatest, and takes away the least; the sense of which made Job blesse God, when stript of all. If a