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Volume 3 includes the investigations that Brooks has done on the 7 doctrines of the riches of Christ. He shows how it is the duty of preachers and ministers to preach Jesus Christ to the people and that the office of a faithful minister is an honorable one. Brooks also raises the question “How must Christians honor their faithful ministers?” His response is that honor is shown in five ways which...

own righteousness, and lives upon the righteousness of another, to wit, the Lord Jesus. So the apostle, Philip. 3:8–10, overlooks his own righteousness, and lives wholly upon the righteousness of Christ: ‘I desire to be found in him,’ saith he, ‘not having mine own righteousness.’ Away with it, it is dross, it is dung, it is dog’s meat! It is a rotten righteousness, an imperfect righteousness, a weak righteousness, ‘which is of the law; but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness
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