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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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But pray tell me, what will carry a Christian out to this Principle? Will a little grace carry a man out to pursue after grace, for the beauty, holiness, excellency, and spirituality that is in it? Alas, we see by daily experience, that it will not do it: All other considerations put together, are little enough to draw men on to pursue after grace for its native beauty and excellency. Many seek Christ, but 'tis for loaves 1more then for love; and they pursue after the means of grace, not for the beauty, excellency, and glory that's stamped upon the means, but one to maintain his honour, and another to keep up his name, and another to bring in credit or custom, ⟨p. 228⟩and another to please his friends, and another to silence his conscience, &c. But few there be (if any) but those that are rich in grace, that are true to this Principle, that pursue after grace, for its own beauty and excellency. It was a notable expression of David, who was a man rich in grace, Psal. 119. 140. Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loveth it. Oh! for a soul to love grace, and the word of grace, for its own interest, for the holiness, purity, and glory of it, this speaks out the soul to be rich in grace. So Paul, 2a man rich in grace, pursues after grace for its own interest, for the beauty and excellency of it: He forgets what is behind, and presses forward after the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, that if by any means he might attain to the resurrection of the dead. That is, to that perfection that the dead shall reach to in the morning of the resurrection, &c.
But pray tell me, what will carry a Christian out to this Principle? Will a little grace carry a man out to pursue after grace, for the beauty, holinesse, excellency, and spirituality that is in it? Alasse, we see by daily experience, that it will not doe it: All other considerations put together, are little enough to draw men on to pursue after grace for its native beauty and excellency. Many seek Christ, but 'tis for loaves 1