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A77593	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.; Anexichniastoi ploutoi tou Christou	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4919; Thomason E841_8	318,122	353

as a little sum multiplied is great that they cloud the face of God wound conscience grieve the spirit rejoyce Satan and make work for Repentance c. An humble soule knows that little sins suppose them so are very dangerous a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump a little staffe may kill one a little poyson may poyson one a little leak in a ship sinkes it a little Flye in the box of Ointment spoyles it a little flaw in a good cause marres it So a little sin may at once barre the door of Heaven and open the gates of Hell and therefore an humble soule smites and strikes it selfe for the least as well as the greatest Though a head of Garlike be little yet it will poyson the Leopard though he be great Though a Mouse is but little yet it will kill an Elephant if he gets up into his Trunk Though the Scorpion be little yet it will sting a Lyon to death and so will the least sin if not pardoned by the death of Christ A proud heart counts great sins small and small sins no sins and so disarmes Conscience for a time of its whipping and wounding power but at death or in Hell conscience will take up an iron rod with which it will lash the sinner for ever and then though too late the sinner shall acknowledge his little sins to be very great and his great sins to be exceeding grievous and odious c. The tenth Property of an humble soule is this It will quietly 10 Property Psal 39. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Alam which signifies to be mute or tongue-tied Lev. 10. 1 2 3 Vaiidem from Clam am which signifies the quietnesse of the mind the troubled affections being allayed 1 Sam. 3. 11-19 2 Sam. 16. 5-14 Gallesius observes upon Exod. 22. 28. the exceeding patience of those three Emperours Theodosius Honorius and Arcadius towards those that spoke evill of them bear burdens and patiently take blowes and knocks and make no noise An humble soule sees God through man he sees God through all the actions and carriages of men I was dumb saith the Prophet I opened not my mouth because thou didst it An humble soule looks through secondary causes and sees the hand of God and then layes his owne hand upon his mouth An humble soule is a mute soule a tongue-tied soule when he looks through secondary causes to the supream cause So Aaron when he saw his Sons suddenly surprised by a dreadfull and dolefull death he held his peace he bridled his passions he sits silent under a terrible stroke of Divine Justice because the fire that devoured them went out from the Lord. So when Samuel had told Eli that God would judge his house for ever and that he had sworn that the iniquity of his house should not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever c. It is the Lord sayes Eli let him doe what seemeth him good Eli humbly and patiently layes his neck upon the block it is the Lord let him strike let him kill c. sayes Eli. So David when Shimei manifested his desperate fury and folly malice and madnesse in raving and raging at him in cursing and reproaching of him sayes he Let him alone and let him curse for the Lord hath bidden him God sayes he will by his wise providence turne his cursing into blessing I see the Justice of God in his cursing therefore let him alone let him curse sayes David Cassianus reports that when a certaine Christian was held Captive by the Infidels and tormented by divers paines and ignominious taunts being demanded by way of scorne and reproach Tell us what Christ has done for you answered He Acts Mon. fol. 811. hath done what you see that I am not moved at all the cruelties and contumelies you cast upon me So that blessed Martyr Gyles of Brussells when the Fryers By long soo thingour own wills we have forsaken as Cassian saith the very shadow of patience sent to reduce him did at any time miscall him he ever held his peace insomuch that those wretches would say abroad that he had a dumb Devil in him Full Vessels will bear many a knock many a stroke and yet make no noise So Christians that are full of Christ that are full of the Spirit will bare many a knock many a stroke and yet make no noise An humble soule may groan under afflictions but he will not grumble in calmes Proud hearts discourse of patience but in stormes humble hearts exercise patience Philosophers have much commended it but in the houre of darknesse 't is onely the humble Christian that acts it I am afflicted sayes the humble soule but 't is mercy I am not destroyed I am fallen into the pit 't is free-grace I am not fallen into Hell God is too just to wrong me and too gratious to harme me and therefore I will be still and quiet let him doe what he will Isa 58. 1 2 3. with me sayes the humble soule But proud soules resist when they are resisted they strike when they are stricken Who is Non sic deos coluimus aut sic viximus ut ille nos vinceret said the Emperour An onius Philosophus the Lord sayes lofty Pharoah that I should obey him and Cain cryes out My punishment is greater then I am able to beare Well remember this though it be not easie in afflictions and tribulations to hold our peace yet 't is very advantagious which the Heathens seemed to intimate in placing the Image of Angeronia with the mouth bound upon the Altar of Volupia to shew that those that doe prudently and humbly conceale their sorrowes and anxieties by patience shall attaine comfort and refreshment The eleventh Property of an humble soule is this In all 11 Property John 14. 13. Ch. 15. 16. 16. 23 26. The name of Jesus hath a thousandtreasures of joy comfort in it saith Chrysostome And is therefore us'd by Paul five hundred times as some have reckoned Religious duties and services he trades with God upon the credit of Christ Lord sayes the humble soule I need power against such and such sins give it me upon the credit of Christs blood I need strength to such and such services give it me upon the credit of Christs word I need such and such mercies for the cheering refreshing quickening and strengthening of me give them into my bosome upon the credit of Christs intercession As a poore man lives and deales upon the credites of others so does an humble soule live and deale with God for the strengthening of every grace and for the supply of every mercy upon the credit of the Lord Jesus An humble soul knows that since he broke with God in Innocency God will trust him no more he will take his word no more and therefore when he goes to God for mercy he brings his Benjamin his Jesus in his armes and pleads for mercy upon

Alexander had with the Conquest of halfe the world and the fruition of all the treasures pleasures and glories of Asia So an humble soule is more contented and satisfied with Daniel's pulse and John's Coat then proud Princes are with their glistering Crownes and golden Scepters The fourteenth Property of an humble soule is this It can 14 Property rejoyce in the graces and gracious actings of others as well as in its owne An humble Moses could say when Eldad and Medad Prophecied in the Camp Would God that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon Numb 11. 26-30 them So humble Paul in Acts 26. 29. And Paul said I would to God that not onely thou but also all that hear me this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A little and a g●eat way day were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds I heartily wish and pray for thine owne sake that not onely in a low but in an eminent degree both thou and all that are here present were as far Christians as I am Onely I The Ancient Church had her Dipty●hs or publick tables wherein the pe●sons most noted for piety were recorded Plato called Aristotle the Intelligent Reader● and Aristotle set up an Altar in honour of Plato would not wish them Imprisoned as I am An humble soule is no churle there is no envy in spirituall things one may have as much of spirituals as another and all alike So in 1 Thess 1. 2 3. We give thanks to God alwayes for you all making mention of you in our prayers Remembring without ceasing your worke of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our father So in the 2 Epistle 1. 2 3 4. Grace be unto you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ We are bound to thanke God alwayes for you brethren as it is meet because that your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth So that we our selves glory in you in the Churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure Ezekiel can commend Daniel his contemporary matching him with Noah Ezek. 14. 14. 2 Pet. 3. c. and Job for his power in prayer And Peter highly praises Pauls Epistles though he had been sharply reproved in one of them Oh! but proud soules will be still a casting disgrace and contempt upon those excellencies in others that they want Caesar B●rg● a emulating imitating Julius Caesar used to say Aut Caesar aut nullut But not long after he was slaine in the Kingdome of Navarre in themselves A proud Cardinall in Luthers time said Indeed a reformation is needfull and to be desired but that Luther a rascally Fryer should be the man should doe it is intollerable Pride is like certaine Flies called Cantharides who light especially upon the fairest wheat and the most blown Roses Though Licinius who was joyned with Galerius in the Empire was so ignorant that he could not write his owne name yet as Eusebius reports he called the Liberall Arts a publick poyson This age is full of such Monsters that envy every light that outshines their owne and that throw dirt upon the graces and excellencies of others that themselves may onely shine Pride is notable both at Substraction and at Multiplication A proud heart alwayes prizes himselfe above the Market he reckons his owne pence for pounds and others pounds for pence he looks upon his owne Counters as gold and upon others gold as Counters All Pearles are counterfeit but what he wears The fifteenth Property of an humble soul is He will rather 15 Property Psal 94. 1. Rom. 12. 19. I maytruly say of thehumble soul what Tul ly said of Caesar Nihil obli visci solet nisi injurias that he forgot nothing but injuries bear wrongs then revenge wrongs offered The humble soule knowes that Vengeance is the Lords and that he will repay c The humble soule loves not to take the sword into his owne hand he knowes the day is a coming wherein the Lord will give his Enemies two blowes for one and here he rests An humble soule when wrongs are offered is like a man with a sword in one hand and a salve in the other could wound but will heale Psal 35. 11 12 13 14 15 16. False witnesses did rise up they laid to my charge things that I knew not They rewarded me evill for good to the spoiling of my soule But as for me when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth I humbled my soule with fasting and my prayer returned into my owne A●gustus Caesar in whose time Christ was born bid Catullus the ●ai●ing Poet to supper to shew that he had forgiven him bosome I behaved my selfe as though he had been my friend or brother I bowed downe heavily as one that mourneth for his mother c. The Scripture abounds in instances of this nature Dyonisius having not very well used Plato at the Court when he was gone fearing least he should write against him he sent after him to bid him not to write against him Sayes he Tell Dyonisius that I have not so much leisure as to think of him So humble wronged soules are not at leisure to think of the wrongs and injuries that others doe them Mr. Fox that wrote the Book of Martyrs would be sure to doe him a kindnesse that had done him an injury So that it used to be a Proverb If a man would have Mr. Fox doe him a kindnesse let him doe him an injury An humble soule is often in looking over the wrongs and injuries that he ha's done to God and the sweet and tender carraiage of God towards him notwithstanding those wrongs and injuries and this wins him and works him to be more willing and ready to beare wrongs and forgive wrongs then to revenge any offered wrongs The sixteenth Property of an humble soule is this An humble soule though he be of never so rare abilities yet he will not 16 Property Isa 11. 6. disdaine to be taught what he knowes not by the meanest persons A Child shall lead the humble soule in the way that is good he cares not how mean and contemptible the person is if a guide or an instructer to him Apollo an Eloquent man and mighty in the Scripture a Master in Israel yet sits by an Aquilla a Tent-maker and Vide Beza on the words Priscilla his wife to be instructed by them Acts 18. 24 25 26. Sometimes the poorest and the meanest Christian may for counsel and comfort be a God to another as Moses was to Aaron As an humble soule knowes that the Starres have their scituation in Heaven though sometimes he sees them by their reflection in a puddle in the bottome of a well or in a stinking

ditch So he knowes that godly soules though never so poor low and contemptible as to the things of this world Ephes 2. 6. are fixt in Heaven in the Region above and therefore their poverty and meannesse is no bar to hinder him from learning of them Though John was poor in the world yet many humble souls did not disdaine but rejoyce in his Ministry Christ lived poor and dyed poor Mat. 8. 20. As he was borne in another mans house so he was buried in another mans Tomb. Austin observes when Christ dyed he made no will he had no Crown-lands onely his Coat was left and that the Souldiers parted among them and yet those that were meek and lowly in heart counted it their Heaven their happinesse to be taught and instructed by him The seventeenth Property of an humble soule is this 17 Property Tully calls gra●tude Maximam imo ma●em omnium virtutum reliquarum The greatest yea the mother of all virtues An humble soule will blesse God and be thankefull to God as well under misery as under mercy As well when God frownes as when he smiles as well when God takes as when he gives as well under crosses and losses as under blessings and mercies Job 1. 21. The Lord gives and the Lord takes blessed be the name of the Lord. He doth not cry out upon the Sabeans and the Chaldeans but he looks through all secondary Causes and sees the hand of The Jewes have a Prov That we must leap up to Mount Gerizim which was a Mount of Blessings But creep into Mount Ebal which was a Mount of Curses To shew that we must be ready to blesse but backward to curse An humble soule can extract one contrary out of another honey out of the rock gold out of iron c. Afflictions to humble souls are the Lords Plow the Lords Harrow the Lords Flaile the Lords drawing Plaisters the Lords p●u●ing knise the Lords Potion the Lords Soap and therefore they can sit dowae and blesse the Lord and kisse the rod. God and then he layes his hand upon his owne heart and sweetly sings it out The Lord gives and the Lord takes blessed be the name of the Lord. An humble soule in every condition blesses God as the Apostle commands in the 1 Thess 5. 18. In every thing give thanks to God So 1 Cor. 4. Being reviled we blesse being persecuted we suffer The language of an humble soule is If it be thy will saith an humble soule I should be in darknesse I will blesse thee and if it be thy will I should be againe in light I will blesse thee If thou wilt comfort me I will blesse thee and if thou wilt afflict me I will blesse thee if thou wilt make me poor I will blesse thee if thou wilt make me rich I will blesse thee if thou wilt give me the least mercy I will blesse thee if thou wilt give me no mercy I will blesse thee An humble soul is quick-sighted he sees the rod in a fathers hand he sees honey upon the top of every twigg and so can blesse God he sees Sugar at the bottome of the bitterest cup that God doth put into his hand he knowes that Gods House of Correction is a School of Instruction and so he can sit downe and blesse when the rodd is upon his back An humble soule knowes that the designe of God in all is his Instruction his Reformation and his Salvation It was a sweet saying of holy Bradford If the Queen will give me my life I will thank her if she will Banish me I will thank her if she will burne me I will thank her if she will condemne me to perpetuall imprisonment I will thank her I this is the temper of an humble heart An humble soule knowes that to blesse God in prosperity is the way to increase it and to blesse God in adversity is the way to remove it An humble soule knowes that if he blesses God under mercies he hath paid his debt but if he blesses God under crosses he hath made God a debtor But oh the pride of mens hearts when the rod is upon their backs You have many Professors that are seemingly humble while the Sun shines while God gives and smiles and stroakes but when his smiles are turned into frownes when he strikes and layes on oh the murmurings the disputings the frettings and wranglings of proud soules they alwayes kick when God strikes The last Property of an humble soule is this An humble 18 Property soule will wisely and patiently bear reproof Prov. 25. 12. As an ear-ring of gold and an Ornament of fine gold so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear A seasonable reproof falling upon an humble soule hath a redoubled Grace with it It is as an ear-ring of gold and as an Ornament of fine gold or as a Diamond in a Diadem An humble David can say Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindnesse and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent Psal 14. 5. Oyle is here Metaphorically taken for wo●ds of rep●o●f wth●ay be said figura●ively to breake the head vide Job 19 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oyle which shall not break my head David compares the faithfull reproof of the righteous to the excellent Oyle that they used about their heads Some Translate it Let it never cease from my head That is let me never want it and so the Originall will bear too I would never want reproofs whatsoever I want But yet my prayer shall be in their calamities I will requite their reproofs with my best prayers in the day of their Calamity saith David Whereas a proud heart will neither pray for such nor with such as reprove them but in their calamities will most insult over them Some Translate it more emphatically The more they doe the more I shall think my selfe bound unto them And this was In vit Jo. Gers So Alipius loved Austin for reproving him So did David Nathan 1 Kings 1. 2 Sam. 12. 12 13. 24. 13 14 That 's a choyce and ●ender spirit that can meekly humbly imbrace re●roofs and blesse God sor reproofs Gersomes disposition of whom it is recorded That he rejoyced in nothing more then if he were freely and friendly reproved by any Prov. 9. 8 9. Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser Prov. 19. 25. Reprove one that hath understanding and he will understand knowledge You know how sweetly David carries it towards Abigall 1 Sam. 25. 32 33. shee wisely meets him and puts him in mind of what he was going about and he falls a blessing of her presently Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood I was resolved in my passion and in the heat of