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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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Many a valiant person dares fight in a Battle, or a Duel who yet will be timorous and fearful, if suddenly surprised in a mid-night Alarm. Many precious souls, when they have time to consider of the evil of sin, the holiness of God, the eye of God, the honour of God, the glory of the Gospel, the joys of the Saints, and the stopping of the mouths of sinners, will rather dye, then sin; they will rather suffer any thing, then do the least thing that may be a reproach to Christ: Oh! but when a sudden occasion or temptation is presented, why, then they often fall, as David by chance spied Bathsheba washing her self, and falls before the temptation, he is conquered and carried captive by that sudden occasion. ⟨p. 234⟩But that's a more comfortable and considerable passage that you have concerning Joseph, in Gen. 49. 23, 24. The Archers sorely grieved him (saith the Text) and shot at him, and hated him, but his Bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. Joseph never wanted counsel nor courage, when he was at the worst. Souls rich in grace (usually) stand firm under the greatest and suddenest pressures, assaults, and invasions, as you may see in Paul, 2 Cor. 1. 9, 12. and so the three Children; so Daniel; and so those Worthies, Heb. 11. 35. They would not accept of deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Many sudden assaults and attempts were made upon them, their enemies would fain have stormed them, and overcome them, sometimes by golden offers, sometimes by terrible threats, but they are invincible, nothing stirs them, nothing takes them. Really friends, it must be much grace that will make a man to live up to this Principle; and there's nothing that speaks out more the strength of Grace in a man, then his standing against sudden assaults and invasions that by the Devil and the world are made upon him. You may talk of this, but without much grace you will never be able to do it, &c.
Many a valiant person dares fight in a Battell, or a Duell who yet will be timerous and fearfull, if suddenly surprized in a mid-night Alarum. Many precious soules, when they have time to consider of the evill of sin, the holinesse of God, the eye of God, the honour of God, the glory of the Gospel, the joyes of the Saints, and the stopping of the mouths of sinners, will rather dye, then sin; they will rather suffer any thing, then doe the least thing that may be a reproach to Christ: Oh! but when a sudden occasion or temptation is presented, why, then they often fall, as David by chance spied Bathsheba washing her selfe, and falls before the temptation, he is conquered and carried captive by that sudden occasion.