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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

not doting upon their discouragements upon things that are seen but upon things that are not seene The things which are seen are temporall but the things which are not seen are eternall An eye fixt upon incouragements makes heavy afflictions light long afflictions short and bitter afflictions sweet Those blessed Martyrs found it so that were cast out all night in a cold frosty night and were to be burnt the next day who thus comforted themselves The winter is sharpe but Paradise is sweet here we shiver for cold but the bosome of Abraham will make amends for all Weak Christians have eyes to behold their discouragements but none to see their incouragements they look more upon their corruption then upon their sanctification Upon their disobedience then their obedience upon their distrust then upon their faith upon the old man then upon the new and this keeps them low and weak in spirituals it causes a leannesse in their soules Sixthly The zeale of weake Christians usually out-strips their wisedome and knowledge Weak Christians are very Zealous but not according to knowledge Rom. 10. 2. For I beare them record that they They were very zealous but not true Zelors have a zeale of God but not according to knowledge They are very peevish and pettish and censorious but they want wisedome and knowledge to mannage their zeale to Gods glory and their brethrens good Such zeale had those two Rabbins that set upon Charles the Fifth to perswade him to David Rab●nita and Shilomoh Mol●h● Alsted Chr. ●26 turne Jew as judging their Religion to be the onely Religion in the world and for which they were put to a cruell death in the year 1530. A great zeale they had to the winning over of him to Judaisme but this zeale was their ruine Zeale without knowledge is as wild-fire in a fooles hand 't is like the Devil in the Demoniack that sometimes cast him into the fire and sometimes into the water So the Disciples of Christ Josephus in ●he 1● 12 Chapters of his Book tells you of some that imposed this name of Zelote upon them●elves as if they were zealous for the honour and service of God and under this pretence committed all ●iots and imaginable wick e●nesse 'T were well if we had no such Monsters among us in these dayes were weak in their light and furious in their zeale Luke 9. 54. Let fire come downe from Heaven and consume them say they But mark what Christ saith vers 55. Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of That is you know not what spirit acts you you think that you are acted by such a spirit as Elias of old was acted by but you erre saith Christ You have a zeale but not according to knowledge therefore 't is a humaine affection and not a Divine motion Zeale is like fire in the Chimney 't is one of the best servants but out of the Chimney 't is one of the worst Masters Zeale kept by knowledge and wisedome in its proper place is a choyce servant to Christ and Saints But zeale not bounded by wisedome and knowledge is the high-way to undoe all and to make a hell for many at once Weak Christians are usually most zealous about Circumstances and things that have least of God and Christ and the power of holinesse in them and most cold about substances as wofull experience doth evidence in these dayes Zeale ordered by wisedome feeds upon the faults of offendors not on their persons It spends it selfe and it 's greatest heat principally upon those things that concerne a mans selfe 'T is most exercised about substantials Titus 2. 14. But that which is rash is most exercised about circumstantials Gal. 1. 14. Paul was in the dayes of his ignorance very zealous for the Traditions of his fathers c. Seventhly Among all Saints the weakest Saints act most like carnall sinners No Saint so like a sinner as a weak Saint 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. And I Brethren could not speake unto you as unto spirituall but as unto carnall even as unto Babes in Christ I have fed you with milke and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able for are ye not yet carnall for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions are ye not carnall and walke as men for while one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not carnall They were advanced but very little above the imperfections and passions and sins of meer men of such which had nothing of the Spirit in them c. Doe wicked men quarrell with their Teachers as shallow triviall Teachers when themselves are in fault as being not capable of more Mysterious matter So did these Babes here Doe wicked In many things weak Christians are carnall mens Apes men impute their not profiting to the Minister as he that having a thorne in his foot complaines of the roughnesse of the way as the cause of his limping when as it was the thorn and not the roughnesse of the way that hurt him Or as she that being struck with a suddaine blindnesse bid open the window when as it was not the want of light but want of sight that troubled her So did these Babes in the Text lay the fault of their non-proficiency upon their Teachers when the fault was wholly in themselves Now he calls them Carnall partly because the flesh was strong in them and partly because they followed and relished the things of the flesh and partly because they did in their actions resemble carnall men Doe carnall and wicked men cry up one good man and cry downe another Doe they lift up one and abase another So did they Are wicked men full of envy strife and divisions So were they And these overflowings of the Gall and Spleen come from a fullnesse of bad humours from that abundance of carnality that was in them But now soules strong in grace are higher then carnall men as Saul was higher then the people by head and shoulders Soules strong in grace have their feet where carnall mens heads are Prov. 15. 24. The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath Soules that are strong in grace doe act rather like Angels then like carnall men they doe as much resemble the father of Spirits as carnall men doe the father of Lyes Eighthly Soules weake in Grace are easily drawne aside out of the wayes of holinesse You know a man that hath but a little bodily strength is easily thrust out of the way so it is with soules weak in grace 1 John 3. 7. Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous Saith the Apostle Little Children let no man deceive you Many in these dayes under pretences of high and glorious injoyments of God neglect and despise righteousnesse and holinesse crying up Visions

and a gripe of Goats haire for an Oblation and certainly God hath lost none of his affections to poore soules in the time of the Gospel Cant. 2. 14. Let me heare thy voyce for thy voyce is sweet and thy countenance is lovely The Hebrew word * Eth kolech signifies any sound such as Birds or bruits make their chattering is like lovely Songs in the ear of God their mite is a sweet Oblation Parents that have but some drops of that love and tender affection that is in God to his people yet accept of a very little service from their weak Children and will not God In time of strength God looks for much but in the time of weaknesse God will bear much and overlook much and accept of a little yea of a very very little One writing of the Tree of Knowledge saith That it bears many leaves but little fruit Though weak Saints have a great many leaves and but little fruit little grace yet that little the Lord will kindly accept of Artaxerxes the Persian Monarch was famous for accepting of a little water from the hand of a loving Subject God makes himselfe famous and his Grace glorious by his kind acceptation of the weakest endeavours of his people c. The seventh Support is this The least measure of Grace is as true an earnest and as good 7 Support Though men often loose their earnest yet God will never loose his His earnest is very obliging Phil. 1. 6. and sure a pledge of greater measures of Grace that the soule shall have here and of Glory that the soule shall have hereafter as the greatest measure of Grace is He that hath begun a good worke he will perfect it to the day of Christ Christ is called not onely the Author but also the Finisher of our faith Heb. 12. 2. In Mal. 4. 2 3. Vnto you that fear my name shall the Son of Righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings and he shall goe forth and grow up as The Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or way signifies a distinct course from others as the way from one Town differs from the way to another Here in Job 't is taken for a course in piety Calves of the stall And so in Job 17. 9. The righteous shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger Zech. 12. 8. In that day shall the Lord defend the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David and the house of David shall be as God as the Angel of the Lord before them So in Hos 14. 5 6 7. I will be as the dew to Israel he shall grow as the Lilly and cast forth his fruits as Lebanon His branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive Tree and his smell as Lebanon They that dwell under his shadow shall return they shall revive as the Corne and grow as the Vine the sent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon The Tree in Alcinous Garden had alwayes blossomes buds and ripe fruits one under another Such a Tree will God make every weak Christian to be The righteous though never so weak shall flourish like the Palme Tree Psal 92. 12 13 14 Now the Palme Tree never looseth his leafe or fruit saith Pliny An old man being asked If he grew in goodnesse answered Yea doubtlesse I believe I doe because the Lord has said They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From Hagnan Green flourishing or green as the Hebrew hath it In the Island of St. Thomas on the back side of Africa in the midst of it is a hill and over that a continuall Cloud wherewith the whole Island is watered Such a cloud is Christ to weak Saints Though our hearts naturally are like the Isle of Pathmos which is so barren of any good as that nothing will grow but on Earth that is brought from other places yet Christ will make them like a watered Garden and like a Isa 58. 11. Spring of water whose waters faile not The eighth Support is this 8 Support A dying sai● once cryed out He is come he is come meaning the Lord with a great reward for a little worke That the least good that is done by the weakest Saint shall not be despised by Christ but highly esteemed and rewarded As you may see in Mat. 19. 27. Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee and what shall we have A great All a great catch indeed as I have formerly shew'd you they left a few old boats and torne Nets and poor houshold-stuffe yet Christ carries it very sweetly and lovingly to them and tells them in vers 28. that they should sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Christ tells them they shall sit as Ambassadors or chief Councellors and Presidents which have the chief seats in the Kingly Assembly yea they shall sit as Kings they are here but obscure Kings but Kings Elected but in that day they shall be Kings Crowned Kings glorified Kings acknowledged then they shall as far out-shine the glory of the Sun as the Sun psal 89. 27. Agrippa having suffered imprisonmēt for wishing Cajus Emperour the first thing Cajus did when he came to the Empire was to prefer Agrippa to a Kingdome He gave him also a Chain of gold as heavy as the Chaine of I●on that was ●pon him in prison And will not Christ richly ●eward for all our well wishes towards him and for all our gracious actings for him surely he will he ha's a Kings heart as well as a Kings Purse ●eb 6. 10. now outshines a twinkling Star In that day they shal be higher then the Kings of the Earth So in Mat. 10. ult And whosoever shall give to drinke unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water onely in the name of a Disciple verily I say unto you he shall in no wise loose his reward for a cup of cold water Water the common Element and cold water which cost them not the charges of fire to warme it for that there is a torrent and a very sea of all pleasures provided for thee to all Eternity God esteems mens deeds by their minds and not their minds by their deeds The least and cheapest courtesie that can be shewed shall be rewarded There is an Emphasis in that deep asseveration Verily I say unto you he shall in no wise loose his reward Mercy is as sure a graine as vanity God is not like to break neither will he forget the least good done by the least Saint The Buttler may forget Joseph and Joseph may forget his fathers house but the Lord will not forget the least good done by the weakest Saint The Duke of Burgundy being a wise and loving man did bountifully reward a poor Gardener for offering of him a Rape root being the best present